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'Lying in bed he thought about Francine as she had been' seated in front of
his mirror, swathed in stiff silk her reflected face looking gravely back at
her real face. She must easily be the most beautiful girl in the world' A
sight for sore eyes. Alfred Chance had once used that expression and it had
stuck in the mind. About an object, though, not a person. It meant that
looking at beauty took away pain and hurt made you better' Francine
made him better and his eyes were sore when they couldn't feast on her.'
Neither his mother nor his father took much notice of Teddy Brex. No one ever
cuddled him, or played with him or talked to him. The only person he could
vaguely relate to was Alfred-Chance' who lived next door it'd made beautiful
things in his workshop.
People, Teddy suspected, were uniformly vile and rotten' vastly inferior to things.
Objects never let you down.
When Francine Hill was discovered by her father' sitting by the body of her
mother, her skirt red with blood, she was mute. Not until nine months after the
murder did she manage to speak, but she could not tell the police or her father
anything to help track down the killer.
Damaged children grow up in different ways- Some can shuffle off the horrors of
the past, others perhaps cannot change who they are, or will never know how.
Teddy Brex became a handsome young man, Francine was beautiful. But it was
death that brought them together …
.Ruth Rendell is the ultimate anatomist of the human psyche, probing behind
public facades to reveal private torment and distorted visions that change the way
we view the world around us'- Val McDermid
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