The series starred Jeremy Northam and Douglas Hodge. A Fatal Inversion 1992 3 hr 0 mins Suspense NR Watchlist Five former friends, who shared in a horrendous crime years ago, find their secret revealed when the bodies of a woman and a baby are. 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.

But which woman is dead? And whose child? Slowly the facts emerge and the past catches up with them.

It was adapted for television by the BBC in 1992. 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. A master of deep, disquieting insight into the pathological dynamics of love (The New York Times), author Ruth Rendell’s Crime Writers’ Association Gold Dagger Awardwinning A Fatal Inversion is rife with lost Edens, family secrets and stifled sexual urges (Chicago Tribune). 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. a gripping read from start to end Daily MailBrilliant. 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 - a classic thriller from the queen of crime Barbara Vine An absolute winner. A Fatal Inversion is a 1987 novel by Ruth Rendell, written under the pseudonym Barbara Vine. Editions for A Fatal Inversion: 0140158618 (Paperback published in 1992), (Kindle Edition published in 2011), (Kindle Edition), 0141040475 (Paperback pub.

A fatal inversion