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Overview. This psychological mystery/thriller, adapted from Ruth Rendell's novel of the same name, depicts a family on the edge. Two sisters, the elder obsessive Vera, and the younger, manipulative Eden, cut a path of jealousy, murder and revenge that leads to the destruction of their entire family. Celia Imrie. 2 Episodes. Helena Bonham Carter.
Even the title is intriguing, referring to a eye that has adapted to darkness and can see in obscurity. The title promises darkness, obfuscation and the ability or lack thereof for characters to see the truth before them. Secrets, denials and the long tentacles of events past is the main theme of A Dark Adapted Eye.
Episode 2A Dark Adapted Eye (Mini-Series 1994)Stars: Helena Bonham Carter, Celia Imrie, Robin Ellis, Bernice StegersDirector: Tim Fywell
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A first-rate novel' Washington Post. A Dark-Adapted Eye is a modern classic. If you enjoy the crime novels of P.D. James and Ian Rankin you will love this book. Barbara Vine is the pen-name of Ruth Rendell. She has written fifteen novels using this pseudonym, including A Fatal Inversion and King Solomon's Carpet which both won the Crime Writers ...
A Dark Adapted Eye was the first book by Barbara Vine, Ruth Rendell's alter ego. I enjoy Vine's mysteries because they examine how past events effect the present and leave invisible wounds on those who participate or merely witness. This television adaptation was produced in Britain in the early 1990s and was first shown on PBS' Mystery.
A DARK-ADAPTED EYE is the first Barbara Vine book, the first of a long line of excellent novels that showed Ruth Rendell's ability to craft stories superior even to her more conventional mysteries. In this haunting tale of bitter sibling rivalry, Vine makes it clearly known from the beginning that Vera Hillyard brutally murdered her younger ...
May 7, 2009 · A Dark-Adapted Eye is a modern classic. If you enjoy the crime novels of P.D. James and Ian Rankin you will love this book.'A rich, complex and beautifully crafted novel' P.D. JamesThe prize-winning classic that 'changed the thriller landscape', with a new foreword from Val McDermid.VERA HILLYARD.
