# The Birthday Present

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- Book: [The Birthday Present](https://www.bookquiver.com/ruth-rendell/the-birthday-present) ([The Birthday Present.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/ruth-rendell/the-birthday-present.md))
- Authors: [Ruth Rendell](https://www.bookquiver.com/ruth-rendell)
- Publisher: crown
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-03-0745-199-6
- Published: 2009-03-10
- Language: en_US
- Binding: E-book

## Description

A deft, insightful, and compulsively readable exploration of obsessive desire--and the dark twists of fate that can shake the lives of even those most insulated by privilege, sophistication, and power....