Portobello
By: Ruth Rendell
Publisher: Arrow; Arrow Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9780099538639
Subjects: Middle-aged men; Fiction; Secrecy
Description: Fifty-year-old Eugene Wren inherited from his father an art gallery near an arcade that now sells cashmere, handmade soaps, and children's clothing. But he decided to move to a more upmarket site. Eugene was, perhaps, too secretive for his own good. He also had an addictive personality. But he had cut back radically on his alcohol consumption, and had given up cigarettes. Which was just as well, considering he was dating a doctor. For all his good intentions, though, there was something he didn't want her to know. One day, Eugene comes across an envelope containing a sum of money. Rather than report the matter to the police, he writes a note and sticks it up on a lamppost near his house. This note would link a number of very different people -- each with their own obsessions, problems, dreams, and despairs. And through it all the hectic life of Portobello bustles on.
Notes: Originally published: London: Hutchinson, 2008.