The Child's Child

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 Child's Child

First edition (publ. Scribner, US)
Author	Barbara Vine
Publisher	Scribner
Publication date	December 4, 2012
ISBN	978-1-451-69489-5

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]