{"product_id":"barbara-vine-the-minotaur-2005","title":"Barbara Vine: The Minotaur [2005]","description":"Kerstin Kvist didn't quite know what to expect when she took up a job with the Cosway family at their odd, almost grand home, Lydstep Old Hall, deep in the Essex countryside. The family turned out to be even odder than the house: the widowed Mrs Cosway lived with her three unmarried daughters, in thrall to the old lady. A mysterious fourth daughter - a widow herself and apparently quite rich - came and went, with ill-disguised contempt for the others. More puzzling still was Mrs Cosway's son, John, a sad, self-absorbed figure in his thirties who haunted the house. There's madness in the family' offered one of the daughters by way of explanation, but Kerstin had trained as a nurse and knew it wasn't right to be administering such powerful drugs to a vulnerable figure like John. Barbara Vine's new book, her twelfth, is compelling in its depiction of the sex, lies and secrets within an apparently respectable family, at a time when the sixties revolution hadn't quite reached rural England.","brand":"Vine, Barbara","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":51401180676435,"sku":"9780670915736","price":21.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Good","offer_id":51401180709203,"sku":"XG80670915736","price":9.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/vine-barbara-barbara-vine-the-minotaur-2005-1178034401.jpg?v=1752520055","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.pro\/products\/barbara-vine-the-minotaur-2005","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}