Vintage Fowles: The Collector

Discover John Fowles' compelling classic first novel `Short and spare and direct, an intelligent thriller with psychological and social overtones' Sunday Times Withdrawn, uneducated and unloved, Frederick collects butterflies and takes photographs. He is obsessed with a beautiful stranger, art student Miranda. Coming into unexpected money, he buys a remote Sussex house and calmly abducts Miranda, believing she will grow to love him in time. Alone and desperate, Miranda must struggle to understand her captor if she is to gain her freedom...