![]() It’s like introducing a gun in the first act you know it’s going to go off in the third. So, too, is Rendell as she slyly details the intertwined upstairs-downstairs lives - the lazy au-pair who acts as two lovers’ go-between the uptight business executive who keeps his car and driver on call the elderly faux-aristocrat and her equally aged companion the widowed Muslim nanny who dotes on her youngest charge the gay couple who treats a tenant like a servant the gardener who sips Guinness and thinks a god is talking to him through a cell phone the young chauffeur sleeping with his employer’s daughter - and her mother.Įarly on, Rendell notes a shaky bannister on some tall steps. The fox doesn’t care if the dustbins hold the detritus of the street’s tony residents or their various servants he’s an equal-opportunity scavenger. ![]() ![]() Zita Society (Scribner, purchased e-book). An urban fox prowls Hexham Place in Ruth Rendell’s cunning new ensemble piece, The St. ![]()
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