 First edition (publ. Scribner, US) | |
| Author | Barbara Vine |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Scribner |
Publication date | December 4, 2012 |
| ISBN | 978-1-451-69489-5 |
The Child's Child is the 14th novel written by Ruth Rendell under the pseudonym Barbara Vine, and the first such novel in 4 years, [1] [2] since 2008's The Birthday Present . The novel was published in the United States in December 2012 and in the UK by Penguin Viking in March 2013. [3] 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. [4]
