Danforth Genre Fiction Topic Lgbt / General, Contemporary Women, Gothic Item Width 6in Item Weight 29.

a queer roar and it's terrifying and it's a goddamned triumph' Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts and The Cabin at the End of the World. Danforth, Sara Lautman, Oct 05, 2021, William Morrow Paperbacks edition, Paperback Plain Bad Heroines (edition) Open Library It looks like you're offline. Plain Bad Heroines : a Novel Item Length 9in Publisher HarperCollins Publication Year 2021 Format Trade Paperback Language English Item Height 1.5in Author Emily M. 'Buzzing with wickedness.sly, wry and dangerous to know' Rosie Garland. And as past and present become grimly entangled, it's soon impossible to tell quite where the curse leaves off and Hollywood begins.įor fans of Sarah Waters, Curtis Sittenfeld and Shirley Jackson, Plain Bad Heroines is by turns sharply witty and deeply unsettling: a modern gothic novel that is utterly immersive and hugely compelling. I loved the story within a story and the voices where so distinct and I felt completely immersed in the novel. Over a hundred years later, Brookhants opens its doors once more, when a crew of young actresses arrive to film a high-profile movie about the rumoured Brookhants curse. Plain Bad Heroines was a beast of a novel and I flipping loved it. Within five years the school is closed.īut not before three more people die on the property, each in a troubling way. A few months later they are found dead in the woods, after a horrific wasp attack, the book lying next to their intertwined bodies. 'It's a terrible story and one way to tell it is this: two girls in love and a fog of wasps cursed the place forever after.' 1902, Brookhants School for Girls: students Flo and Clara are madly in love with each other, as well as completely obsessed with The Story of Mary MacLane, the scandalous debut memoir by 19 year old MacLane.

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