Summary

Grace and Andrew Easton share the house theyve inherited from their grandmother and live there peaceably until Andrew brings home a new boyfriend, James, whose caustic comments turn the atmosphere sour. Even as James starts coming apart after he and Andrew witness a friends murder, Grace begins reading a lost 1951 novel called The Childs Child whose setting and protagonists uncannily echo her own situation. Diamond Dagger winner Vine punctures us again.

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From "unequivocally the most brilliant mystery writer of our time" (Patricia Cornwell), a new novel from Ruth Rendell writing as Barbara Vine, about a brother and sister involved with the same man in contemporary London.