The Child's Child
  • Published: 11 April 2014
  • ISBN: 9780241963579
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $32.99

The Child's Child

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27 Feb 2013
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11 Apr 2014
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What sort of betrayal would drive a brother and sister apart?

When Grace and her brother Andrew inherit their grandmother's house in Hampstead, they decide to move in together. It seems the obvious thing to do: they've always got on well, the house is large enough to split down the middle, and neither of them likes partying or loud music. There's one thing they've forgotten though: what if one of them wants to bring a lover into the house? When Andrew's partner James moves in, it alters the balance - with almost fatal consequences.

The Child's Child is an intriguing examination of betrayal in a family, and of those two once-unmentionable subjects, illegitimacy and homosexuality.
  • Published: 11 April 2014
  • ISBN: 9780241963579
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $32.99
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About the author

Barbara Vine

Barbara Vine is the pen-name of Ruth Rendell. Viking have published her twelve previous novels, including A Dark Adapted Eye, which won the Crime Writer's association Gold Dagger Award, and more recently Grasshopper, The Blood Doctor and The Minotaur. Ruth Rendell sits in the house of Lords as a Labour peer. She lives in Maida Vale, London.

Also by Barbara Vine

No Night is Too Long
The Birthday Present
King Solomon's Carpet
The Chimney Sweeper's Boy
A Fatal Inversion
A Dark-Adapted Eye
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Praise for The Child's Child

Probably the greatest living crime writer in the world

Ian Rankin

Cracking stuff. The Vine continues to flourish . . . (A) miracle of storytelling with her customary aplomb and cool composure

Express on THE CHILD's CHILD

Vine is not afraid to walk down the mean streets of the mind and can build up an almost tangible atmosphere of menace and unease

Daily Telegraph