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Gladys and Annie Barnes are impoverished sisters who have seen better times. They live in a modest cottage in the backstreets of Highate with Mr Fisher, a mild but eccentric old man living secretively in the attic above them. Their quiet lives are thrown into confusion when a new landlord takes over, a dreaded and unscrupulous ''rackman''. He installs his wife in part of the cottages in the hope that there she will recover from an unspecified malady. With a mounting sense of fear, Gladys and Annie become convinced she is possessed by an evil spirit...

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Stella Gibbons is the Jane Austen of the 20th century -- Lynne Truss
Gibbons was an acute and witty observer, and her dissection of the British class system is spot-on -- Mail on Sunday
Stella Gibbons is - as always -gay, satirical and entertaining * Aberdeen Press and Journal 1967 *

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      Publisher: Vintage Publishing
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 04/08/2011
      ISBN13: 9780099528692, 978-0099528692
      ISBN10: 009952869X

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Gladys and Annie Barnes are impoverished sisters who have seen better times. They live in a modest cottage in the backstreets of Highate with Mr Fisher, a mild but eccentric old man living secretively in the attic above them. Their quiet lives are thrown into confusion when a new landlord takes over, a dreaded and unscrupulous ''rackman''. He installs his wife in part of the cottages in the hope that there she will recover from an unspecified malady. With a mounting sense of fear, Gladys and Annie become convinced she is possessed by an evil spirit...

      Trade Review
      Stella Gibbons is the Jane Austen of the 20th century -- Lynne Truss
      Gibbons was an acute and witty observer, and her dissection of the British class system is spot-on -- Mail on Sunday
      Stella Gibbons is - as always -gay, satirical and entertaining * Aberdeen Press and Journal 1967 *

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