The Child's Child is the new crime novel by bestselling prize-winning author Barbara Vine What sort of betrayal would drive a brother & sister apart? When Grace & 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 & 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. Barbara Vine's is the pen-name of Ruth Rendell & The Child's Child is the first book she has published under that name since The Birthday Present in 2008. It's an intriguing examination of betrayal in families & of those two once-unmentionable subjects illegitimacy & homosexuality. A taut thrilling read it will be enjoyed by readers of P.D. James & Ian Rankin. ' The Rendell/ Vine partnership has for years been producing consistently better work than most Booker winners put together' Ian Rankin ' She deploys her peerless skills in blending the mundane commonplace aspects of life with the murky impulses of desire & greed. Ruth rendall has published fourteen novels under the Vine name two of which Fatal Inversion & King Solomon's Carpet won the prestigious Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award. Also available in Penguin by Barbara Vine: The Minotaur The Blood Doctor Grasshopper The Chimney Sweeper's Boy The Brimstone Wedding No Night is Too Long Asta's Book King Solomon's Carpet Gallowglass The House of Stairs A Dark-Adapted Eye.