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Heartstones (UK)
Heartstones (UK) | Ruth Rendell
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In a college town two schoolgirls live with their widowed father Luke, a gentle well-educated man, meticulous and orderly. Elvira and Spinny are watchful however for Luke plans to remarry and has chosen Mary. The threat to the girls world is removed, however, when Mary falls to her death.
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Teenage Elvira has an unhealthy obsession with her widowed father, a penchant for gothic literature, an indifference to her younger sister's night-fears of ghostly cats and whispering witches, disdain for everybody else, an eating disorder, and darkening fantasies about dispatching her father's new girlfriend.
Elvira's an unreliable first-person narrator, and gradually Rendell peels away the layers of delusion to reveal... 🖤
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Bookwomble Death of a parent, eating disorders - mainly anorexia nervosa -, psychosis, suicide, depression, grief, neglect. I've probably missed a couple - it's that kind of story. 5mo
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