The Make-Believe Man.

ELIZABETH FENWICK

Publication: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1963, London

First U.K. edition. Edgar Award Nominee for Best Novel in 1963. "The quietly astonishing Elizabeth Fenwick is an alchemist with ordinary stuffs"; and now once again she shows how the everyday world can be transmuted into a realm of terror."---An American critic. Norma Hovic's mother was going to stay with Norma's sister and her family until the new baby was born. Norma, recently widowed, was almost ashamed at how pleased she was to be left in her mother's house with no company but her eleven-year-old son Jimmy. It wasn't that Norma didn't love her mother, but it felt good to feel that this was her home. Then Cliff appeared. Norma had heard her mother talk of Cliff...he had been her mother's roomer, and then had left her mother's house before Norma and Jimmy had moved in. Norma began to dislike Cliff and wished he'd go away. He finally did leave...that time, but then he was back. Soon Norma, though she had police protection by then, was terrified. But she didn't know how terrified she should have been! Light toning to top edge of front panel along with "C226" written on the top page edges, red stamp on rear flyleaf that says "Senior Instructor Officer dated April 12, 1964" else very good in dust jacket with a few tiny nicks to the spine ends and with light wear to the corners and a few tiny closed tears to the extremities. An Edgar Award nominee for 1963.

Inventory Number: 28601