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Withdrawn, uneducated and unloved, Frederick collects butterflies and takes photographs. He is obsessed with a beautiful stranger, the art student Miranda. When he wins a betting pool, he buys a remote Sussex house and calmly abducts Miranda, believing she will grow to love him in time. Alone and desperate, Miranda must struggle to overcome her own prejudices and contempt if she is understand her captor, and so gain her freedom.
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PUBLISHED
Boston : Little, Brown and Co., 1997.
Year Published: 1997
Description: 305 pages ; 21 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780316290234
SUBJECTS
Collectors and collecting -- Fiction.
Mentally ill -- Fiction.
Kidnapping -- Fiction.
Young women -- Crimes against -- Fiction.
England -- Fiction.
Psychological fiction.