# The Child's Child

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- Book: [The Child's Child](https://www.bookquiver.com/ruth-rendell/the-childs-child) ([The Child's Child.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/ruth-rendell/the-childs-child.md))
- Authors: [Ruth Rendell](https://www.bookquiver.com/ruth-rendell)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-02-4196-357-9
- Pages: 288
- Published: 2014-02-13
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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. The Child's Child is an intriguing examination of betrayal in a family, and of those two once-unmentionable subjects, illegitimacy and homosexuality.