The chimney sweeper's boy
Subtitle: a novel
By: Barbara Vine.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Harmony Books
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
Subjects: Adult children of dysfunctional families -- Fiction; Fathers and daughters -- Fiction; Problem families -- Fiction; Biographers -- Fiction; Authors -- Fiction; England -- Fiction
Description: This is the story of best-selling novelist Gerald Candless, whose sudden death from a heart attack leaves behind a wife and two doting daughters. To sort through her grief, one of his daughters, Sarah, decides to write a biography of her internationally celebrated father.

Within hours of beginning her research, Sarah comes across the first of what will be many shocking revelations. As her life is slowly torn apart, a terrible logic finally emerges to explain her mother's remoteness, her father's need to continually reinvent himself in his work, and a long-forgotten London murder.