The Nature of the Beast

By Frances Fyfield

Book Overview

Douglas Petty is a man who enjoys his reputation as an unreconstructed male with a penchant for too much wine and too many women. Inheriting his father's eccentric estate and dog sanctuary quietened... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0676974937
• ISBN13: 9780676974935
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: Knopf Canada
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Intriguing

I'm a long time Fyfield fan. The more recent books in the series have been somewhat inconsistent. Fyfield's writing is always good but her plotlines now and then were not what they could have been. This time out, we've got a really good book that is, unfortunately, bracketed by a Foreward and an Endpiece that consist of letters. The letters, while obviously the only way the author could impart the particulars she wanted to get across, are tiresome. Once into the meat of the book itself, there's a cast of well-drawn characters and a plot that, on the surface, seems a bit strange. The subplot, however, is clever and the characters are revealed slowly, steadily until they emerge ultimately not at all as they seem initially. This is, finally, a well-told story with an entirely satisfying resolution.Recommended.