The Minotaur by Barbara Vine
Title: The Minotaur
Genre: Fiction - Thriller Author: Barbara Vine
Edition: Published by Viking 2005 – large paperback – good secondhand condition.
Kerstin Kvist didn’t quite know what to expect when she took up a job with the Cosway family at their odd, almost grand home, Lydstep Old Hall, deep in the Essex countryside. The family turned out to be even odder than the house: the widowed Mrs. Cosway lived with her three unmarried daughters, in thrall to the old lady. A mysterious fourth daughter – a widow herself and apparently quite rich – came and went, with ill-disguised contempt for the others. More puzzling still was Mrs. Cosway’s son John, a sad, self absorbed figure in his thirties who haunted the house. “There’s madness in the family” offered one of the daughters by way of explanation, but Kerstin had trained as a nurse and knew it wasn’t right to be administering such powerful drugs to a vulnerable figure like John.
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