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Language English Media type Print (Hardcover) ISBN 0-670-80977-2 Preceded by A Dark-Adapted Eye Nominations Dagger of Daggers | 4/5 Goodreads Publication date March 1987 Pages 336 pp Originally published March 1987 Country United Kingdom Genres Crime Fiction, Mystery | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Publisher Viking (UK)
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A Fatal Inversion is a 1987 novel by Ruth Rendell, written under the pseudonym Barbara Vine. The novel won the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger in that year and, in 1987, was also shortlisted for the Dagger of Daggers, a special award to select the best Gold Dagger winner of the award's 50-year history.
Contents
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Plot summary
In the process of burying a beloved dog in the animal cemetery of Wyvis Hall, a beautiful Suffolk country house, the owner unearths the skeletons of a dead woman and baby. The horrific discovery challenges the buried memories and guilt of a small group of young people who, 10 years earlier, spent the broiling Summer of 1976 in a self-indulgently irresponsible idyll at Wyvis Hall, unexpectedly inherited by one of their number. Slowly the facts emerge and the past catches up with them. But which woman is dead? And whose child?
Adaptation
The BBC adapted the novel for television in 1992. The series starred Jeremy Northam and Douglas Hodge.