The Stepdaughter - 'One of the greatest, darkest writers who ever lived' VIRGINIA FEITO

Discover Caroline Blackwood''s darkly brilliant debut - a perfect rediscovered classic for fans of Shirley Jackson and Ottessa Moshfegh A lavish Upper West Side apartment is the site of a familial cold war about to enter a phase of dangerous escalation. J is a lonely woman without even the luxury of being alone. Her husband has fled to Paris with his latest flame, but he''s left J not only with their own four-year-old daughter, Sally Ann, but with the sulky cake-mix addicted, thirteen-year-old Renata, a leftover from his previous marriage. The presence of a pert au pair, Monique, serves only to make J feel more isolated and self-conscious. What she''d like is someone to blame. Writing letters in her head to imaginary friends, J delights in dwelling on the hapless Renata, who ''invites a kind of cruelty''. This is an invitation J fully intends to take up - and like so many stepmothers before her, she will find that wickedness, once indulged, is a difficult habit to kick. A mordant black splinter of a book, Caroline Blackwood''s first novel stands as proof positive of her eternal mastery - and mockery - of the darkest depths of human feeling.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Caroline Blackwood, Blackwood Caroline
• Edition: Virago Press Ltd
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Broché
• Sortie: 16.01.2025
• EAN: 9780349019468
• ISBN: 978-0-349-01946-8
• Pages: 128
• Dimensions: 124 mm x 196 mm x 14 mm
• Thème: Virago Modern Classics
• Catégories: Littérature > Littérature (récits); FICTION / Classics, Thriller / suspense, Psychological thriller, Fiction: general and literary