The Catherine Wheel

by Patricia Wentworth

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25 Currently reading

Published December 1989 by Ulverscroft Large Print .
Written in

Subjects:

Mystery & Detective - General,
Fiction - Mystery/ Detective

The Physical Object
Format	Hardcover
Number of Pages	492
ID Numbers
Open Library	OL9621209M
ISBN 10	0854565345
ISBN 10	9780854565344
OCLC/WorldCa	2914842

Set in a summer house in coastal Maine, The Catherine Wheel tells of the relationship between Andrew Shipley, a lonely twelve-year-old boy angry that his best friend has abandoned him, and his adored older cousin Katharine Congreve, a wealthy woman still bitter that Andrew’s father married her cousin instead of her. Over the course of a long summer, as Andrew and . The Catherine’s Wheel is a symbol named after St. Catherine who was a saint and martyr from the 4th century. It is a wheel with curved knife blades on the outer rim. St. Catherine was a noted scholar and princess in the 4th century.

The Catherine-Wheel had once been a home for pirates and smugglers, but now it looked like it was harbouring a murderer. It began with an advertisement in the paper requesting descendants of the late innkeeper, Jeremiah Taverner, to stay for a weekend at the inn.4/5(6). The first time in audio, Jean Stafford's final novel, The Catherine Wheel, is a mordant tour de force concerning the gradual disintegration of a woman under pressures both societal and self-imposed. Katharine Congreve, a Boston society figure, is summering at her country house in Hawthorne, Maine, in the late s, looking after the children of.

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Jean Stafford’s third and final novel, The Catherine Wheel, is a mordant tour de force concerning the gradual disintegration of a woman under pressures both societal and self-imposed. Katharine Congreve, a Boston society figure, is summering at her country house in Hawthorne, Maine, in the late s, looking after the children of her cousin Maeve, as she does every by: 2.

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I love the attention to the natural world and humankind's efforts to domesticate it, too. She's especially good with child characters/5. "The Catherine Wheel" is a lyrical tragedy as resonant and linguistically gorgeous as the best of F.

Scott Fitzgerald. It focuses on a spinster aunt whose small-town New England home plays summertime host to her nieces and nephew--the latter a somber little boy who absorbs his parents' marital strife more deeply than his siblings without really understanding it/5(3). The Catherine Wheel, is a The Catherine Wheel book novel by Patricia Wentworth, first published There was certainly a heavy air of intrigue and mystery emanating from the old inn high on the cliff top.

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In it she turns her unflinching gaze on the grim realities of s London, and the madness that can infect couples/5. The Catherine Wheel (The Miss Silver Mysteries Book 15) - Kindle edition by Wentworth, Patricia.

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They arrived eager, a mixed assortment, but one of them got hideously murdered bringing the inn's stormy past to focus. Maud Silver was sent to investigate. The NOOK Book (eBook) of the The Catherine Wheel by Patricia Wentworth at Barnes & Noble.

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