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Informationen zum Autor Barbara Vine was the pen-name of Ruth Rendell! and Viking published all of her books under that name. Rendell was an exceptional crime writer! with worldwide sales of approximately 20 million copies! and regular Sunday Times bestsellers. Rendell won numerous awards! including the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger for 1976's best crime novel with A Demon in My View! a Gold Dagger award for Live Flesh in 1986! and the Sunday Times Literary Award in 1990. In 2013 she was awarded the Crime Writers' Association Cartier Diamond Dagger for sustained excellence in crime writing. In 1996 she was awarded the CBE and in 1997 became a Life Peer. Ruth Rendell died in May 2015. Klappentext Brilliant new novel from crime writer Ruth Rendell writing under her pen-name of Barbara Vine! about those two previously unmentionable subjects! illegitimacy and homosexuality. A young woman has a one-night stand with her beloved brother's gay partner! and her subsequent pregnancy threatens to wreak physical and emotional turmoil. Zusammenfassung When Grace and her brother Andrew inherit their grandmother's house in Hampstead! they decide to move in together. It seems the obvious thing to do: they've always got on well! the house is large enough to split down the middle! and neither of them likes partying or loud music.
