The Child's Child - Couverture souple

Vine, Barbara

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0241963583 ISBN 13 : 9780241963586

Editeur : Penguin, 2014

Synopsis

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.

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

'The Rendell/Vine partnership has for years been producing consistently better work than most Booker winners put together' Ian Rankin

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Barbara Vine was the pen-name of Ruth Rendell, and Viking published all of her books under that name.

Rendell was an exceptional crime writer, with worldwide sales of approximately 20 million copies, and regular Sunday Times bestsellers.

Rendell won numerous awards, including the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger for 1976's best crime novel with A Demon in My View, a Gold Dagger award for Live Flesh in 1986, and the Sunday Times Literary Award in 1990. In 2013 she was awarded the Crime Writers' Association Cartier Diamond Dagger for sustained excellence in crime writing. In 1996 she was awarded the CBE and in 1997 became a Life Peer.

Ruth Rendell died in May 2015.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

'Vine weaves this miracle of storytelling with her customary aplomb and cool composure' Daily Express

When Grace and her brother Andrew inherit their grandmother's house, they decide to move in together, joined before long by Andrew's partner James. But relations between the three of them soon become strained, and Grace - seeking an escape - is drawn into the story of a gay man living a lie with his illegitimately pregnant sister in the late 1920s. As the couple's fate dramatically unfolds, Grace starts to realise that their lives mirror her own in a frightening way...

'She deploys her peerless skills in blending the mundane, commonplace aspects of life with the murky impulses of desire and greed' Sunday Times

'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

'The pre-eminent genius of the psychological thriller' Herald

'The Rendell/Vine partnership has for years been producing consistently better work than most Booker winners put together' Ian Rankin

'A tense read' Woman

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0241963583
• ISBN 13: 9780241963586
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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