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The Woman in White Author: Wilkie Collins

ISBN: 9780099511243 Format: Paperback Number Of Pages: 624 Published: 1 December 2007 Country of Publication: GB Dimensions (cm): 19.8 x 12.9 x 3.8 Description: A hypochondriac uncle, two girls who look identical, a count with a penchant for mesmerism and vanilla bonbons, a lunatic asylum, an evil husband... What more could you want? - Maggie O'Farrell

Marian and her sister Laura live a quiet life under their uncle's guardianship until Laura's marriage to Sir Percival Glyde. Sir Percival is a man of many secrets - is one of them connected to the strange appearances of a young woman dressed all in white? And what does his charismatic friend, Count Fosco, with his pet white mice running in and out of his brightly coloured waistcoat, have to do with it all? Marian and the girls' drawing master, Walter, have to turn detective in order to work out what is going on, and to protect Laura from a fatal plot

About the Author

Wilkie Collins was born in London on 8 January 1824. His father was the landscape painter William Collins. After school he worked for a tea merchant before studying to become a lawyer. In 1848 he published a biography of his father and his first novel, ANTONINA, followed in 1850. In 1851 he met Charles Dickens who would later edit and pub...

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