The Child's Child is the new crime novel by bestselling prize-winning author Barbara Vine 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. Barbara Vine's is the pen-name of Ruth Rendell and 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 and of those two once-unmentionable subjects illegitimacy and homosexuality. A taut thrilling read it will be enjoyed by readers of P.D. James and 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 and greed. Ruth rendall has published fourteen novels under the Vine name two of which Fatal Inversion and 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.
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