A Fatal Inversion

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 Fatal Inversion
First edition (UK)
AuthorBarbara Vine (Ruth Rendell)
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
GenreCrime / Mystery novel
PublisherViking (UK)
Bantam (US)
Publication date
March 1987
Media typePrint (Hardcover)
Pages336 pp
ISBN0-670-80977-2
OCLC23838424
Preceded byA Dark-Adapted Eye 
Followed byThe House of Stairs 

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?

Adaptations

The BBC adapted the novel for Radio 4 in 1991, and in three episodes for television in 1992 as the first novel to be adapted for The Barbara Vine Mysteries. The series starred Jeremy Northam and Douglas Hodge.[2]

gollark: For example, I do not really donate money to charity, despite at least having theoretically nonzero money. I feel somewhat guilty about this if I think about it very hard.
gollark: Distributing punishment based on that would make things like advertisements for charities horrible infohazards.
gollark: If you want to know about what *you* should do, then it's more reasonable to ask about the morality of actions, not people, because the people way runs into accursed counterfactuals very fast.
gollark: For that the purpose is probably something like "should you be eternally tortured", which I think the answer to is literally always "no".
gollark: First, consider for what purpose you want to know whether it's "evil" or not to have been that person.

References
  1. "Ruth Rendell: In quotes". The Guardian. Guardian Media Group. 2 May 2015. Retrieved 7 August 2015.
  2. https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0102126/


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