<p><b><i>The Child''s Child</i> is the new crime novel by bestselling, prize-winning author Barbara Vine, pen-name for the late bestselling author Ruth Rendell<br><br></b>What sort of betrayal would drive a brother and sister apart?<br><br>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. There''s one thing they''ve forgotten though: what if one of them wants to bring a lover into the house? When Andrew''s partner James moves in, it alters the balance - with almost fatal consequences.<br><br>Barbara Vine''s is the pen-name of Ruth Rendell, and <i>The Child''s Child</i> is the first book she has published under that name since <i>The Birthday Present</i> in 2008. It''s an intriguing examination of betrayal in families, and of those two once-unmentionable subje