Read by William Gaminara.

In the long, hot English summer of 1976, a group of young people are
camping in Wyvis Hall. 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. Ten years later, the bodies of a woman and
child are discovered in the Hall's animal cemetery. Which woman?
And whose child? A Fatal Inversion is among Barbara Vine's most creepy
and atmospheric novels. From the start of the first chapter, death casts
its ominous shadow over the entire novel, when Adam, Rufus and Shiva,
now three grown men in their thirties are forced to confront something
terrible and tragic that took place ten years previously, when they
lived together in a commune. The group of people who come to inhabit
`Ecalpemos', a Georgian mansion, inherited from his Great Uncle by
19-year-old Adam Verne-Smith, are by no means likeable characters -
hedonistic, selfish, arrogant, manipulative, weak - yet you become
intensely caught up in their world and the landscape of their individual
psychologies. Then the wheel of fate is set in motion with the arrival
of the seemingly mysterious, disturbed and child-like Zosie. Barbara Vine
writes about dysfunctional individuals in a unique way that imbues
the mundane with chilling significance.

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