β Scribed by Fremlin, Celia
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Seven Lean Years(1961) was Celia Fremlin's third novel of suspense. Its protagonist is Ellen Fortescue, engaged to be married, but oddly uneasy about her approaching wedding. Her fiance Leonard is a man of varying moods, most combustibly where the subject of his stepmother Laura is concerned. Ellen is inclined to a kinder view; but then the woman Ellen calls 'Cousin Laura' does have a complicated history with the Fortescue family...
'Fremlin wraps up her little mystery cunningly in this accomplished thriller-chiller of a book.' Sunday Times
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'Fremlin has a quite extraordinary ability for imbuing the normal with intimations of doom-to-come. And when she begins to develop her elegantly horrible climax, the shivers chase each other down one's spine.'Birmingham Post
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'Celia Fremlin is about our best hope to compete with the American intelligent superior suspense school.'Observer
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