The girl who couldn't read

English language

Published Feb. 28, 2014 by Blue Door.

ISBN:
9780007324231
OCLC Number:
876284377

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4 stars (1 review)

2 editions

An Entertaining Throwback

4 stars

It’s quite difficult to say much about this book without spoiling something, so I’ll make this short. The story takes place in a turn-of-the-century insane asylum, the narrator is unreliable, and all of the tropes of gothic literature are well in place all the way up to a mad woman in the attic. It reminded me of Crime and Punishment, the Brontë sisters, Charles Dickens, and Whuthering Heights, among many other pieces of classic literature - and in all the right ways.

And the blurbs on the back are right in saying no one is who they seem.

Subjects

  • Fiction
  • History

Places

  • New England