Emily Rhodes

Mounting suspicion: The Fate of Mary Rose, by Caroline Blackwood, reviewed

Terror and distrust build in the Anderson family after a six-year-old girl is found murdered in a quiet Kent village

Caroline Blackwood in 1953. [Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images]
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    Virago Modern Classics, pp. 240, £9

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