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Rendell was born as Ruth Barbara Grasemann in 1930, in South Woodford, Essex (now Greater London). [3] Her parents were teachers. Her mother, Ebba Kruse, was born in Sweden to Danish parents and brought up in Denmark; her father, Arthur Grasemann, was English.
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 ]
A Fatal Inversion is a 1987 novel by Ruth Rendell, written under the pseudonym Barbara Vine. [1] 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.
A Dark-Adapted Eye (1986) is a psychological thriller novel by Ruth Rendell, written under the pen name Barbara Vine. The novel won the American Edgar Award . [ 1 ] It was adapted as a television film of the same name in 1994 by the BBC .
King Solomon's Carpet (1991) is a novel by Barbara Vine, pseudonym of Ruth Rendell. [1] It is about the London Underground and the people frequenting it. Vine's novel is inhabited by ordinary passengers, tube aficionados, pickpockets, buskers, vigilantes, and children who go "sledging" on the roofs of train carriages as an initiation rite.
Barbara Vine: King Solomon's Carpet (1991) Nigel West: The Blue List (1989). This espionage story culminates in the war-time bunker built in the uncompleted tunnels of North End station, although this is incorrectly identified as Paddock, a separate bunker in Dollis Hill. Conrad Williams: London Revenant (2004)
The Guardian stated that "Vine's great talent is in making sure that we care" but that "When it comes to the animate, however, Vine's touch is sometimes less sure." [2] Entertainment Weekly rated it an A−, writing that "As do all Barbara Vine novels, the well-wrought mystery Grasshopper has a lot lurking below its carefully composed surface".
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