''The Child's Child'' is the 14th novel written by
Ruth Rendell
Ruth Barbara Rendell, Baroness Rendell of Babergh, (; 17 February 1930 – 2 May 2015) was an English author of thrillers and psychological murder mysteries.
Rendell is best known for creating Chief Inspector Wexford.The Oxford Companion ...
under the pseudonym Barbara Vine, and the first such novel in 4 years, since 2008's ''
The Birthday Present
''The Birthday Present'' is a 1957 British drama film directed by Pat Jackson and starring Tony Britton and Sylvia Syms. The screenplay was by Jack Whittingham who also produced the film for British Lion Films.
Plot
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''. The novel was published in the United States in December 2012 and in the UK by Penguin Viking in March 2013.
In a number of interviews Rendell has intimated that this will be the last novel she writes under the Vine pseudonym.
The narrator of the novel is a Grace Easton, a university lecturer writing a PhD thesis about unmarried mothers in Victorian literature. Grace shares a house inherited from their grandmother with her gay brother Andrew.
References
Novels by Ruth Rendell
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