The series starred Jeremy Northam and Douglas Hodge. 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. 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. But which woman is dead? And whose child? Adaptations A Fatal Inversion is a 1987 novel by Ruth Rendell, written under the pseudonym Barbara Vine. They date from the summer of 1976, the summer that Adam Verne-Smith and his friends lived there, in an upscale version of the free-love communes that grew like weeds in the summer fields. Slowly the facts emerge and the past catches up with them. The novel begins as the remains of a child are excavated from a pet cemetery on the grounds of the Wyvis Hall. 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. 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 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 is a 1987 novel by Ruth Rendell, written under the pseudonym Barbara Vine.
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