Much more disturbing than her novels written as herself, this one is about a group of friends who committed awful crime against a child. Of course they were young and inexperienced, but it's amazing how Barbara Vine portrays them as worst possible scum on earth. After many years memories of crime begin to haunt them when they are older and have a respectable career.
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