![]() ‘The things that had happened at Ecalpemos, Adam resisted thinking about. Even the location of Ecalpemos is hidden for a while. Meanwhile, she plays with Adam’s job, using an extended metaphor of him using a mental ‘Esc’ key to suppress unwanted memories. The doctor, Rufus, does not attend the inquest but is able to imaginatively reconstruct the pathologist’s evidence to the court. ![]() Rendell/Vine is a great stylist and really shows off. The three guard a guilty secret from their shared past, and that secret is slowly revealed as the book progresses, although the end-point is clear from chapter one: the bodies of a young woman and child are unearthed in a Suffolk woodland. But ten years previously they were all living the hippy lifestyle for one golden summer in Ecalpemos. ![]() Shiva Manjusri is an assistant in an East London pharmacy. ![]() The charismatic Dr Rufus Fletcher is an up-and-coming gynaecologist with a Wimpole Street practice. Pedantic and charmless Adam Verne-Smith owns a software company. The story switches between 19 and uses three main points of view. I’ve read plenty of Ruth Rendell’s work, but never one by her alter ego Barbara Vine, so I was looking forward to this. ![]() I picked up Pierre Magnan’s Death in Truffle Wood on the same trip and will be reviewing that in due course. I bought this on a recent trip to London, when I was able to squeeze a visit to Henry Pordes Books on Charing Cross Road in between meetings. Get A Fatal Inversion on DVD from (US visitors) ![]()
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