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Original Title:	The Tree of Hands
ISBN:	0345312007 (ISBN13: 9780345312006)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	CWA Silver Dagger for Fiction (1984), Edgar Award Nominee for Best Novel (1986)

The Tree of Hands Paperback | Pages: 320 pages

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Title	:	The Tree of Hands
Author	:	Ruth Rendell
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 320 pages
Published	:	February 12th 1986 by Fawcett (first published October 15th 1984)
Categories	:	Mystery. Fiction. Crime. Thriller. European Literature. British Literature

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As I have stated elsewhere, I am a fan of Rendell's books although I have to tread warily with them as they are often extremely unsettling in a way different from most psychological thrillers. I had read this book many years ago and another Goodreads friend (have forgotten who) was mentioning Rendell so I pulled this one off my shelf for a reread. At the moment, I think that Tree of Hands is one of her best. It has all the twists and turns one expects from her: multiple plotlines and disparate characters who are strangers to one another equally at the mercy of some inescapable awful fate, neuroses, fixations and obsessions of all kinds. And yet, unlike some of her books where one can be hard-pressed to identify or sympathize with any of the characters, I found myself feeling pity for Barry, who seems like many many young men today - unskilled and rootless yet looking for love, trying to be good men and getting involved with people who devalue and emasculate them. I could also identify with and sympathize with Benet, the young writer, her grief and her choice- this book would be a heck of a choice for a book club. Does anyone know if this book has been filmed by BBC? It would be perfect as a movie.

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I love books that have multiple plot lines that throw you for a loop until they are all nicely tied together. This is one of those books. It is dark and disturbing and definitely shows the not so nice side of people.It doesn't have the happy ending, so if you are looking for that look elsewhere.

Well, that was certainly a different type of thriller for me. They never caught her, the body of a child was never found, the abducted child's mother gets killed, the abductee's ex lover gets killed. And nothing is tidied up nicely like a package with a bow. A very quick read that was nothing like I would have expected it to be.

The first book of hers I have read - not as scary as I expected, but a really good investigation into how events can link together to cause people to act in very strange ways.

There are those books that you read and enjoy and then forget. Tree of Hands has stayed with me for years. Like all of Rendell's books, it is uncomfortably dark and cynical. She never hesitates to lure readers to sympathize with miscreants and then punish the characters. Her books are like tense drives on a dangerous mountain road.

Incredibly devious, even by Ruth Rendell standards.

I have just recently discovered Ruth Rendell's books. (My local library has been doing some remodeling so books that were formerly on the bottom shelves are now more accessible LOL). Anyway so far I have enjoyed them mainly because she has a rather quirky writing style and I like how there is a lot going on. She was certainly ahead of her time creating characters that are not that likable, but similar to a train wreck, you just can't look away. I am glad that I have discovered her work and that

Being parent?Three parents, one schizophrenic, Benetton is writer, Carol, selfish gold-digger. Their characters and men in their lives are well written. But not very clear ending, maybe not being used to reading British English books.