Blackwood Caroline - The Stepdaughter - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: A wicked stepmother finds her ideal prey in Carlone Blackwood's quite brilliant (The Times) debut. A lavish Upper West Side apartment is the site of a familial cold war about to enter a phase of dangerous escalation. J is a lonely woman without even the luxury of being alone. Her husband has fled to Paris with his latest flame but he's left J not only with their own four - year - old daughter Sally Ann but with the sulky cake - mix addicted thirteen - year - old Renata a leftover from his previous marriage. The presence of a pert au pair Monique serves only to make J feel more isolated and self - conscious. What she d like is someone to blame. Writing letters in her head to imaginary friends J delights in dwelling on the hapless Renata who invites a kind of cruelty. This is an invitation J fully intends to take up and like so many stepmothers before her she will find that wickedness once indulged is a difficult habit to kick. A mordant black splinter of a book Caroline Blackwood's first novel stands as proof positive of her eternal mastery and mockery of the darkest depths of human feeling.
Title: The Stepdaughter
Author(s): Blackwood Caroline
Publisher: Mcnally Editions
Barcode: 9781961341128
Pages: 112 Pages
Publication Date: 8/13/2024
Category: Family & Relationships