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|title=Isabel's Skin

|author=Peter Benson

|publisher=Alma Books

|date=September 2013

|summary=A very awkward book to review, as it certainly holds much that is memorable in its pages, and is so close so succeeding in its intentions, but ultimately falls short of greatness.

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David Morris is a book trader and valuer in some indeterminate Victorian year, when he is given the job of perusing a great and valued collection held in a rich house in rural Somerset. One can guess – especially given the mood that leaps off these pages from the first and never relents – that something might go wrong, just him and the house's sole servant and her cats. But the clues build when we find just how much she dislikes a neighbour – who seems a decent enough fellow, living in seclusion, and culture and intellect wise the only equal to Morris for his short working holiday. But whose unusual behaviour can Morris trust – and who is Isabel?