![]() ![]() (Vic no longer shares a bedroom with Melinda, choosing instead to spend his nights in a separate room on the other side of the house.) The Van Allens’ marriage has been toxic for some years there is no real love left in the relationship, only jealousy and sniping whenever the couple are together. They live with their six-year-old daughter, Trixie, in the suburban community of Little Wesley where Vic owns a small publishing business dedicated to the production of high-quality, specialist books. Vic and Melinda Van Allen have been married for around eight years. The way she does this is so clever she knows exactly how her readers will respond to each of her characters, creating a situation where we feel sympathy for a murderer and contempt for the woman who has made his life so difficult. Once again, Highsmith encourages us to side with an outwardly respectable man who secretly harbours psychopathic tendencies. ![]() The book was published in 1957, two years after The Talented Mr Ripley with which it shares a psychological focus – more specifically, the motives that drive certain individuals to behave in sinister ways. ![]() Deep Water is another top-notch novel from Patricia Highsmith, probably on a par with the best of the Ripley series. ![]()
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