She has written fifteen novels using this pseudonym, including A Fatal Inversion and King Solomon's Carpet which both won the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award. Barbara Vine is the pen-name of Ruth Rendell. James, Ian Rankin and Scott Turow, you will love this book. A most satisfying end' Daily Telegraph 'Nimbly written with all the Dickensian values of vivid characterization, fine prose style and a cunningly devised plot that shifts and twists and keeps you on the edge of your chair' Val Hennessy, Daily Mail A Fatal Inversion is a modern classic of the crime genre. the clues are cunningly planted, so that it seems one should have known all along. Which woman? Whose child? 'I defy anyone to guess the conclusion. Ten years later, the bodies of a woman and child are discovered in the Hall's animal cemetery. Adam, Rufus, Shiva, Vivien and Zosie hardly ask why they are there or how they are to live they scavenge, steal and sell the family heirlooms. that compels a reader to go on turning the pages' Sunday Times In the long hot summer of 1976, a group of young people are camping in Wyvis Hall. Vine has the kind of near-Victorian narrative drive. a gripping read from start to end' Daily Mail 'Brilliant. ↩︎īook links may earn this site a small commission.A Fatal Inversion - a classic thriller from the queen of crime Barbara Vine 'An absolute winner. Iris Murdoch - The Book And The Brotherhood A non-fiction work dedicated to Ruth’s love of the East Anglian county with photographs by Paul Bowden. Was the summer of 1976 the best Britain ever had? Peggy Reynolds talks to writers about how the long, hot summer of 1976 affected their writing. But I always read the scripts and make comments and I think they take a lot of notice of me.-Ruth Rendell 2 I was delighted with the BBC’s version of A Fatal Inversion. Which woman? Whose child? NotesĪbridged into fourteen parts and read by Lewis Fiander for BBC Radio 4 in 1987.Īdapted for TV in 1992. Ten years later, the bodies of a woman and a child are discovered in the Hall’s animal cemetery. They scavenge, steal and sell the family heirlooms. Adam, Rufus, Shiva, Vivien and Zosie hardly ask why they are there, what they are doing or how they are to live. In the long hot summer of 1976, a group of young people are camping in Wyvis Hall. When the Labour-supporting socialist became a life peer in the House of Lords in 1997, the title she chose was Baroness Rendell of Babergh - acknowledging the district so close to her heart. Her later years were anchored to London, but Suffolk was in her soul. The second Barbara Vine novel published by Viking in 1987
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