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Book Review of A Fatal Inversion

A Fatal Inversion
A Fatal Inversion
Author: Barbara Vine
Book Type: Paperback
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In the long hot summer of 1976, a group of young people are camping in Wyvis Hall( in England). Adam, Rufus, Shiva, Vivien and Zosie hardly ask why they are there or how they are to live; they scavenge, steal and sell the family heirlooms. In short they exist. Ten years later, the bodies of a woman and child are discovered in the Hall's animal cemetery. Which woman? Whose child?