These cynical domestic horror stories by the Guinness heiress seem to speak to a contemporary mindset
Fashion is an important part of publishing: trends and bandwagons come and go. Yet many publishers are now digging into their archives and reissuing old books. Resurrecting titles that on the one hand have a claim to timelessness, and on the other might appeal to today’s readers, is a way of both resisting fashion and supporting it.
The energy of The Stepdaughter is created through friction: between Renata and J, but also between J and the reader. That energy drives a linguistic verve that is deeply entertaining even if not directly comic. And in this short sharp shocker of a book, depth is added by a modulation in J’s feelings as the story concludes, and a killer closing line. Blackwood’s 1981 novel The Fate of Mary Rose is more traditional in structure, but no less intense.
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