The Chimney Sweeper's Boy

Ruth Rendell

earliest edition we have, 1998 ISIS Large Print Bks., 1999 352 pages

When successful author Gerald Candless dies of a sudden heart attack, his eldest, adoring daughter Sarah embarks on a memoir of him and soon discovers that her perfect father was not all he appeared to be. That, in fact, he wasn't Gerald Candless at all. But then, who was he? And what terrible secret had driven him to live a lie for all those years?

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Editions we hold

The Chimney Sweeper's Boy audiobook · 2011 · Sound Library · 9780792777243
Chimney Sweeper's Boy edition · 2011 · Open Road Integrated Media, Inc. · 352 pages · 9781453214985
The Chimney Sweeper's Boy edition · 2010 · Penguin Group UK · 9780141938295
Chimney Sweeper's Boy edition · 2009 · Penguin Books, Limited · 448 pages · 9780141040165
Chimney Sweeper's Boy edition · 2008 · Penguin Books, Limited · 456 pages · 9780141037608
The Chimney Sweeper's Boy edition · 2006 · Penguin Books Ltd · 448 pages · 9780140272345
The Chimney Sweeper's Boy paperback · 2006 · Washington Square Press · 352 pages · 9781416531937
Der schwarze Falter edition · 2001 · Diogenes · 549 pages
Jeux de mains paperback · 2001 · Livre de poche · 477 pages · 9782253182054
Chimney Sweeper's Boy. edition · 1999 · ISIS Large Print Bks. · 352 pages
La mariposa negra paperback · 1999 · Grijalbo. · 9788425332692
Der schwarze Falter. hardcover · 1999 · Diogenes · 549 pages · 9783257062076

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