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27 of 27 people found the following review helpful.
Quality all the Way from the World's Leading Female Psychological Thriller Writer
By Blackcatlover
In `Tigerlily's Orchids' Ruth Rendell takes one of her favourite themes - creepy and downright sad individuals living in close proximity to one another (in this case a block of flats) - lights the blue touch paper, takes a step back, and allows events to ignite and explode on the page.The characters include Stuart Font, a beautiful, vain young man who is perhaps the book's protagonist until something nasty happens to him; a retired alcoholic woman; two elderly ex-hippies who meet again years after a one night stand; a doctor who writes dodgy newspaper columns on medical matters; three young female students, and the building's vile caretaker and his strange, deluded wife.In addition to this, living opposite the flats is a retired ex-mechanic who enjoys people-watching and provides each of those he observes with a nickname. Next door to his home is a house with four Asian inhabitants, including the `Tigerlily' of the title (a nickname given to her by the neighbour - her actual name is Xue) whom Stuart Font becomes infatuated with. This is in addition to conducting an affair with Claudia, a married magazine editor...Rendell weaves all the stories together; each character interacts with the others in some way. It's the matter-of-fact narrative voice Rendell employs that makes her often psychologically damaged individuals so believable, and the intertwined tales so gripping. Despite the seediness on offer, this is a pleasurable, compelling read.The author tightens her narrative grip towards the end and provides an excellent resolution - one I didn't see coming.It's not quite vintage Dame Ruth, but it's still an absorbing novel being both utterly sordid and strange. Without wishing to cause offence, I'll ask the question again: how DOES she produce works of this quality when she's now in her early eighties? She is a writing phenomenon, and still one of the best in the business.Recommended.

18 of 19 people found the following review helpful.
Not vintage Rendell, sadly
By Snowleopard
It's odd, but while I continue to find all Ruth Rendell's novels completely unputdownable, I'm finding the later ones increasingly unsatisfying. One reviewer commented on the fact that so many of her characters are so unpleasant, and this does make it quite hard to care about what happens to them. Apart from the sweet starry-eyed middle-aged lovers Rose and Marius and perhaps one or two others, it's hard to find a remotely sympathetic character in this book. Another reviewer found Olwen the alcoholic heartbreaking, but although I certainly found her bleakly believable, she also seemed most unlovable, not only because she was obviously beyond help in her alcoholic decline but because she was so cold that I could hardly blame her stepchildren for not wanting to have more to do with her.The resolution of the supposed 'mystery' surrounding 'Tigerlily's' house surprised me only because what was really going on there (orchids, my foot!) had seemed so glaringly obvious all along that I thought it must surely be something else. And as for the murderer's identity, when it was finally revealed, the character was so undeveloped that the answer seemed almost incidental. All in all, a bit of a let-down.

41 of 44 people found the following review helpful.
Ruth Rendell - Tigerlily's Orchids
By RachelWalker
I've a blind devotion to Ruth Rendell. That said, she hasn't written a novel I've absolutely loved under her Rendell name for around ten years, since Adam and Eve and Pinch Me. She's come close since then (Thirteen Steps Down, for example), but several of her recent novels have been - while very good - slightly lacking in something... tension, bite, tautness, whatever, I'm not sure. Tigerlily's Orchids is NOT the kind of stunning work of fiction she has produced in the past, but it's certainly on a par with Thirteen Steps Down.I really can't put my finger on what it is that makes some of the recent novels of less than her normal excellence. They're a bit looser, there's not so much tension, so much sense of impending doom. They're not so intense. Yes, I think that's it. They're not so intense or claustrophobic. Also, I don't think her characters are quite as believable as they once were... lately she has taken on a tendency to exaggerate people's character traits to elaborate their personality, which makes them seem a little ridiculous (Claudia is a prime example here), and it takes away from one of the great strengths of her work: the shocking believability of the people involved in the latent horrors of day to day life. Also, and I am loathe to admit it, but she writes with a very old fashioned eye. She's always at pains to point out when something is "as it is said/done nowadays"; that's an exemplar of the attitude that keeps peeking through. Almost everyone seems as if they would be more at home at least a decade, if not more, ago.That all said, she's still my favourite crime-writer. Her novels are still unique, as are her outlook and attitude. She is exceptional at conjuring strange plots and situations. She knits plots brilliantly. Her people are - generally - compelling. The greatest strength of Tigerlily's Orchids is actually the elderly alcoholic Olwen - who'll break your heart. One of Rendell's most powerful traits used to be the fact that her writing held no hint of judgement as to the people she would write about, and it's that coldness that's slipped away a bit - you often know what Rendell thinks of her characters nowadays (she dislikes Sophie, she dislikes Claudia, she dislikes Stuart but has a soft spot for him generally, she likes Marius, she finds Richenda amusing), but I can't fathom what she thinks of Olwen. And that's why hers is the most powerful character, and why the characters in Rendell's older books were often so very powerful. She withheld from judging them, not out of compassion but out of coldness. But now she doesn't.Anyway, to the point. Tigerlily's Orchids, and Rendell's recent work generally, is flawed. Though it is less flawed than this review implies! This recent book is enjoyable, mysterious, has a couple of surprises (nice to see a proper twist back in Rendell's work!), some great set-pieces (Stuart's party), and some moments of great tension. She remains a fantastic, original crime-writer, and among her later work this is one of the stronger efforts. A wonderful bag of people are here for your delectation - meet them!

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