Tigerlilys Orchids, Ruth Rendell
Tigerlilys Orchids, Ruth Rendell
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Tigerlily's Orchids

Author: Ruth Rendell

Narrator: Nickolas Grace

Unabridged: 7 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/14/2011


Synopsis

INCLUDES AN EXCERPT OF RENDELL’S FINAL NOVEL, DARK CORNERS

Diamond Dagger Award–winning Ruth Rendell has written a psychologically thrilling novel about the eccentric inhabitants of a London terrace, the secrets they keep, and what they will do to hide them.

Is it dangerous to know too much about your neighbors?

When Stuart Font decides to throw a housewarming party in his new flat, he invites all the people in his building—three flippant young girls, a lonely spinster, a man with a passion for classical history, and a woman determined to drink herself to death. After some deliberation, he even includes the unpleasant caretaker and his wife. He considered inviting a few other friends, but he definitely does not want his girlfriend, Claudia, in attendance, as he would also have to invite her lawyer husband.

As it turns out, the party will be one everyone remembers.

Living in a townhouse opposite Stuart’s building, in reclusive isolation, is a young, beautiful Asian woman known as Tigerlily. As though from some strange urban fairytale, she emerges infrequently to exert a terrible spell.

And Stuart’s parents, always worried about their handsome, hopelessly naive, and undermotivated son, have even more cause for concern.

Darkly humorous, piercingly insightful about human behavior, Ruth Rendell, whom People magazine calls “one of the most remarkable novelists of her generation,” has created an extraordinarily compelling story of our lives and crimes.

About Ruth Rendell

Ruth Rendell (1930–2015) won three Edgar Awards, the highest accolade from Mystery Writers of America, as well as four Gold Daggers and a Diamond Dagger for outstanding contribution to the genre from England’s prestigious Crime Writ­ers’ Association. Her remarkable career spanned a half century, with more than sixty books published. A member of the House of Lords, she was one of the great literary figures of our time.


Reviews

Goodreads review by John on May 02, 2020

A well written book with twists and turns. The story revolves around a block of flats and the people living in them. Duncan an elderly man who lives across the street weaves fantasies about the people who live in them divorced from reality. There is also black humor throughout the stories. Stuart a......more

Goodreads review by Cameron on March 11, 2024

Ruth Rendell once again gives us a cast of intriguing and believable characters. The drama plays out, slowly at first, but intensifying as we go along. This novel didn't have any of the twists and spins Rendell is known for, however, and it came to a rather predictable and underwhelming end. A far c......more

Goodreads review by Gail on June 26, 2011

As Newsday said re this author’s novel Portobello, “Rendell has long been the queen of the psychological crime.....A novel that glides along Portobello Road like the lime in a gin and tonic. It’s intoxicating.” So true! I’ll admit my bias up front - I’ve long been a fan of Rendell and when she re......more

Goodreads review by F.R. on April 20, 2015

At first I wasn’t overly convinced by this Ruth Rendell novel. It creates its own little world, focusing as it does on the middle class residents of a block of flats (and some of the people who live in the surrounding houses), but my initial impression was that this was just a slight collection of s......more

Goodreads review by Androcles on August 17, 2011

I was disappointed and surprised by this book. Surprised because it is written by such an accomplished author who has a wealth of awards for her writing and is well known for her elegant prose, intricate plots and insights into the human mind - particularly when it comes to the socially isolated and......more