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008			151105b2014 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d
020			_a9780091958848
082			_aFiction REN-R
100			_aRendel, Ruth.
245			_aGirl next door / _cRuth Rendell
260			_aLondon _bHutchinson _c2014
300			_a282 p.
500			_a In the waning months of the second World War, a group of children discover an earthen tunnel in their neighborhood outside London. Throughout the summer of 1944 - until one father forbids it - the subterranean space becomes their secret garden,℗. where the friends play games and tell stories. Six decades later, beneath a house on the same land, construction workers uncover a tin box containing two skeletal hands, one male and one female. As the discovery makes national news, the friends come together once again, to recall their days in the tunnel for the detective investigating the case. Is the truth buried among these aging friends and their memories? This impromptu reunion causes long-simmering feelings to bubble to the surface. Alan, stuck in a passionless marriage, begins flirting with Daphne, a glamorous widow. Michael considers contacting his estranged father, who sent Michael to live with an aunt after his mother vanished in 1944. Lewis begins remembering details about his Uncle James, an army private who once accompanied the children into the tunnels, and who later disappeared. This novel brilliantly shatters the assumptions about age, showing that the choices people make and the emotions behind them remain as potent in late life as they were in youth
650			_aFiction
650			_aMissing persons -- Fiction.
650			_aTunnels -- England -- London -- Fiction.
650			_aHiding places -- Fiction.
650			_aMan-woman relationships
650			_aFriendship
650			_aOlder People
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