Unguarded Hours Author:Ruth Rendell, Helen Simpson Two short novels in one book: The Strawberry Tree by Ruth Rendell and Flesh and Grass by Helen Simpson. — The events of The Strawberry Tree happen in Majorca, during a long cloudless summer, some forty years ago, before the coming of the souvenir shops and tourist agencies. It is a place and time experienced intensely by four children who explore... more » the island and the Casita de Golondro, the little haunted house, and whose lives are utterly changed by the happenings of the summer.
Flesh and Grass is a gourmand's suspense story set deep in middle England where George Thurkle, chef proprietor of Chez Thurkle, and Felix Growcott, village doctor, salivate together over an astonishing variety of flesh. Meanwhile the doctor's daughter, Bryony, puts a brick through the shop window of the village's gentle butcher, Thomas Farewell.« less