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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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