TY - BOOK AU - Vine,Barbara TI - The minotaur SN - 1405611995 PY - 2005/// CY - [Bath, England] PB - Windsor/Paragon KW - Large print books KW - Nurses KW - Fiction KW - Schizophrenics KW - Administration of estates KW - Inheritance and succession KW - Essex (England) KW - Psychological fiction KW - lcsh KW - Suspense fiction KW - gsafd KW - Domestic fiction N1 - First published: Viking, 2005 N2 - Kerstin Kvist didn't quite know what to expect when she took up a job with the Cosway family at their odd house. Lydstep Old Hall, deep in the Essex countryside. The family turned out to be even odder than the house: living at home with the widowed Mrs Cosway were her three unmarried daughters, in thrall to the old lady; but there was also a mysterious fourth daughter, who came and went infrequently, with ill-disguised contempt for the others. Even more puzzling was Mrs Cosway's son, John, a sad, self-absorbed figure in his thirties. Then, just as she was beginning to get some inkling of what was going on in the house, a stranger with a glamorously Bohemian aura moved into the village - and his presence set the Cosway family on a path to self-destruction ER -