The Girl Next Door (Rendell novel)

The Girl Next Door is a novel by British crime writer Ruth Rendell published in 2014. It was the last of her novels published in her lifetime.[1]

Plot and characters

During World War II, a group of children in Loughton, Essex, United Kingdom play in tunnels (in reality, the foundations of an uncompleted house) they discovered under a hill. In the present day they are re-united after the discovery of two hands in a tin box when the tunnels are dug up for construction work.[2] The novel deals frankly with changes and interrelationships of the characters and social changes generally, over seven decades.

Critical reception

In a review in The Observer, it was noted that instead of focusing on the crime, the novel dealt with the lives of the now elderly people in the present.[3]

References

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