Victorian Psycho
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Description de l’éditeur
'Jane Eyre meets American Psycho. Gloriously outrageous, sensationally unhinged' SUNDAY TIMES
‘Simmering with rage, propulsive and laugh-out-loud funny' CATRIONA WARD
'Weird and wonderful' LUCY MANGAN, GUARDIAN
Winifred Notty arrives at Ensor House prepared to play the perfect Victorian governess. She’ll dutifully tutor her charges, Drusilla and Andrew, tell them bedtime stories, and only joke about eating children. But the longer Winifred spends within the estate’s dreary confines and the more she learns of the perversions and pathetic preoccupations of the Pounds family, the more trouble she has sticking to her plan.
Whether creeping across the moonlit lawns in her undergarments or gently tormenting the house staff, Winifred struggles at every turn to stifle the horrid compulsions of her past until her chillingly dark imagination breaches the feeble boundary of reality on Christmas morning. Wielding her signature sardonic wit and a penchant for the gorgeously macabre, Virginia Feito returns with a vengeance in Victorian Psycho.
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What readers are saying…
'Psychotic, strange, utterly hilarious, strangely relatable'
'Dark, gruesome, hilarious, wild, weird'
'One hell of a ride. Perfection!'
'I frequently found myself blindsided, mouth agape, and loved every second of it'
About the author
Virginia Feito was raised in Madrid and Paris, and studied English and drama at Queen Mary University of London. She worked as a copywriter until she quit to write her debut novel. She lives in Madrid.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Feito (Mrs. March) unspools a bold and mordant gothic novel about a murderous governess. Winifred Knotty was born in Victorian England with an "evil soul," according to her mother. Winifred's stepfather, a reverend, regularly performed exorcisms on her as a girl, for macabre behavior such as collecting the corpses of murdered babies in their small village and arranging them on her shelves ("Good, now, I am cured," she said disingenuously after one such exorcism). Eventually, she finds employment as a governess for the Pounds family at their estate on the moors, where she tells the two children that her previous charges "dropped dead." According the book's front matter, the Poundses don't have long to live ("In three months everyone in this house will be dead," reads a caption under a drawing of an estate; "Death everywhere. Death in the river, in the corpses floating upstream and down," begins the preface). The novel's perverse thrill is in slowly uncovering how and why the Poundses meet their fate. Along the way, Feito provides readers with searing glimpses of Winifred's derangement (she bites into a raw chicken in front of the cook and pretends to be a ghost haunting the house). Fans of psychological horror will be enthralled.
