The Child's Child: A Novel

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The Child's Child: A Novel

INCLUDES AN EXCERPT OF RENDELLâ€™S FINAL NOVEL, DARK CORNERS

From three-time Edgar Awardâ€“winning mystery writer Ruth Rendell, writing here under her Barbara Vine pseudonym, an ingenious novel-within-a-novel about brothers and sisters and the violence lurking behind our societyâ€™s taboos.

When their grandmother dies, Grace and Andrew Easton inherit her sprawling, book-filled London home, Dinmont House. Rather than sell it, the adult siblings move in together, splitting the numerous bedrooms and studies. The arrangement is unusual, but ideal for the affectionate pairâ€”until the day Andrew brings home a new boyfriend. A devilishly handsome novelist, James Derain resembles Cary Grant, but his strident comments about Graceâ€™s doctoral thesis soon puncture the houseâ€™s idyllic atmosphere. When he and Andrew witness their friendâ€™s murder outside a London nightclub, James begins to unravel, and what happens next will change the lives of everyone in the house. Just as turmoil sets in at Dinmont House, Grace escapes into reading a manuscriptâ€”a long-lost novel from 1951 called The Childâ€™s Childâ€”never published because of its frank depictions of an unwed mother and a homosexual relationship. The book is the story of two siblings born a few years after World War One. This brother and sister, John and Maud, mirror the present-day Andrew and Grace: a homosexual brother and a sister carrying an illegitimate child. Acts of violence and sex will reverberate through their stories.

The Childâ€™s Child is an enormously clever, brilliantly constructed novel-within-a-novel about family, betrayal, and disgrace. A master of psychological suspense, Ruth Rendell, in her newest work under the pseudonym Barbara Vine, takes us where violence and social taboos collide. She shows how societyâ€™s treatment of those it once considered undesirable has changedâ€”and how sometimes it hasnâ€™t.

Country	USA
Author	Barbara Vine
Binding	Paperback
Brand	Brand: Scribner
EAN	9781476704272
Feature	Used Book in Good Condition
ISBN	1476704279
Label	Scribner
Manufacturer	Scribner
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	336
PublicationDate	2013-10-08
Publisher	Scribner
ReleaseDate	2013-10-08
Studio	Scribner

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