The Lively Dead

ISBN: 0099580802
Author: Peter Dickinson
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Lydia Timms has acquired a rundown five storey house in Notting Hill, whose top floors house the Livonian Government in exile. As Lydia devotes herself to the routing of dry rot, she is increasingly fascinated by the bizarre activities of her new neighbours. But when a mysterious corpse is discovered in the garden, she finds herself propelled into an everwidening net of blackmail, espionage and perhaps murder...

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