TY - BOOK AU - Rendell,Ruth TI - Portobello SN - 9780091925857 (pbk.) U1 - 823.914 23 PY - 2008/// CY - London PB - Hutchinson, Random House KW - Secrecy KW - Fiction KW - Middle-aged men KW - England KW - London KW - West End (London, England) KW - Social conditions KW - Notting Hill (London, England) KW - Psychological fiction KW - Suspense fiction N2 - Walking to the shops one day in London's Notting Hill, fifty-year-old Eugene Wren discovers an envelope on the street bulging with cash. A man plagued by a shameful addiction, Wren hatches a plan to find the money's rightful owner. Instead of going to the police, or taking the cash for himself, he prints a notice and posts it around Portobello Road. This ill-conceived act creates a chain of events that links Wren to other Londoners--people afflicted with their own obsessions and despairs. As these volatile characters come into Wren's life--and the life of his trusting fiancée--the consequences will change them all UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1110/2009052252-b.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1110/2009052252-d.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1110/2009052252-s.html ER -