Scarred

by Monica Dickens

"...psychologically gripping..." Publishing News Plastic surgeon Peter Freeman is a life-saver to the people who need his skills. Twelve-year-old Annette, hideously burned in an accident depends on Peter not only for her looks, but also for her life. Mark, a neurotic young man with a minor facial scar, sees Peter as the one person with the power to mend his misfortunes. When Mark's requests for more and more surgery are refused, his obsession takes a chilling turn.

245 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 1992

About the author

From the publisher: MONICA DICKENS, born in 1915, was brought up in London and was the great-granddaughter of Charles Dickens. Her mother's German origins and her Catholicism gave her the detached eye of an outsider; at St Paul's Girls' School she was under occupied and rebellious. After drama school she was a debutante before working as a cook. One Pair of Hands (1939), her first book, described life in the kitchens of Kensington. It was the first of a group of semi autobiographies of which Mariana (1940), technically a novel, was one. 'My aim is to entertain rather than instruct,' she wrote. 'I want readers to recognise life in my books.' In 1951 Monica Dickens married a US naval officer, Roy Stratton, moved to America and adopted two daughters. An extremely popular writer, she involved herself in, and wrote about, good causes such as the Samaritans. After her husband died she lived in a cottage in rural Berkshire, dying there in 1992.
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