'Nobody's perfect,' says a little girl in a walled garden.

Certainly not the child stolen from a shabby London street. Or the sexually frustrated suburban vicar. Or least of all, perhaps, the woman who runs out of good times and comes to perch like a cuckoo in the bosom of a perfect family.

Requiem for an Angel uncovers the secret history of a murderer, tracing the full damage and horror of an unforgiving killer over forty years. For the first time the three volumes of the Roth Trilogy can be read together as they were designed. A chilling account of one family's self-destruction, the story strips away the layers of the past like an archaeological dig into the very nature of evil.

 

 
This book had really good ratings and reviews on one of my book clubs, and was in a sale of really cheap books to boot. I thought I'd give it a go, not realising it was three books in one volume. The books collected here are: The Four Last Things, The Judgement of Strangers and The Office of the Dead. I've no idea whether I'll enjoy this or not, only time will tell.