A Fatal Inversion
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- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
27 May 2009
Summary
In the long hot summer of 1976, a group of young people are camping at Wyvis Hall. Adam, Rufus, Shiva, Vivien and Zosie hardly ask why they are there, what they are doing or how they are to live; they scavenge, steal and sell the family heirlooms. In short, they exist.
Ten years later, the bodies of a woman and a child are discovered in the Hall’s animal cemetery. Which woman? Whose child?
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141040479 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141040475 |
| Author: | Barbara Vine |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 27 May 2009 |
| Weight: | 230g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 20mm |
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‘I defy anyone to guess the conclusion, but looking back, the clues are seen to be there, unobtrusively but cunningly planted, so that it seems one should have known all along. The curtain is drawn back to reveal rather than to surprise; a most satisfying end’ Daily Telegraph ‘An absolute winner, nimbly written with all the Dickensian virtues of vivid characterization, fine prose style and a cunningly devised plot that shifts and twists and keeps you on the edge of your chair’ Daily Mail ‘The story is brilliant, the ending a perfect bit of irony… Barbara Vine has the kind of near-Victorian narrative drive… that compels a reader to go on turning the pages’ - Julian Symons, Sunday Times
About The Author
Barbara Vine
Barbara Vine was the pen-name of Ruth Rendell. 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.
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