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The Fate of Mary Rose
The rediscovered dark masterpiece for fans of Shirley Jackson
Series: Virago Modern Classics
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THE PITCH-BLACK REDISCOVERED CLASSIC OF 2024 From the Booker-shortlisted author of Great Granny Webster, this twisted modern classic is perfect for fans of Shirley Jackson and Celia Dale. 'One of the greatest, darkest writers who ever lived' — Virginia Feito 'This chillingly profound story drips with...
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The Fate of Mary Rose
A pitch-black rediscovered classic about female rage and collective hysteria in the wake of a child's disappearance from a sleepy commuter town - perfect for fans of Patricia Highsmith, Celia Dale and Ottessa Moshfegh - with a new introduction by Camilla Grudova.
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THE PITCH-BLACK REDISCOVERED CLASSIC OF 2024
From the Booker-shortlisted author of Great Granny Webster, this twisted modern classic is perfect for fans of Shirley Jackson and Celia Dale.
'One of the greatest, darkest writers who ever lived' — Virginia Feito
'This chillingly profound story drips with classy darkness... a one-way descent into the abyss' — Janice Hallett
'A dark masterpiece' — Camilla Grudova
'I absolutely loved this... Creepy, atmospheric and dark as a village green at midnight' — Alice Slater
'A devastating investigation of neurosis, hysteria and cruelty' — Observer
'I read it with wide eyes and unsavoury glee' — Sunday Times
'Caroline Blackwood sits firmly alongside the greats like Shirley Jackson and Patricia Highsmith' — Araminta Hall
'Compulsive, cruel and brilliant' — Daily Mail
'Gimlet-eyed and masterful' — Irish Independent
* She was dead even before I became aware of her existence...A child has been abducted from a sleepy Kent village, her face plastered across the media.
As the crime unleashes a wave of hysteria, the claustrophobic world of Rowan Anderson and his inscrutable wife begins to disintegrate. Consumed by her macabre fixation, Cressida is determined to save their sickly daughter, Mary Rose, from the same fate — and perhaps even from Rowan himself.
With caustic wit and pitch-black brilliance, Caroline Blackwood creates a skin-crawling — and utterly compulsive — story of repressed violence, female rage, and maternal obsession. INTRODUCED BY CAMILLA GRUDOVASeries: Virago Modern Classics
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Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780349019048
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 07 November 2024
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Virago Press Ltd
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 24.0mm
Width: 126.0mm
Height: 196.0mm
Weight: 195g
Pages: 240
About the Author
Caroline Blackwood (1931-1996) was born into a rich Anglo-Irish aristocratic family. She rebelled against her background at an early age and led a hectic and bohemian life, which included marriages to the painter Lucian Freud, the pianist and composer Israel Citkowitz, and the poet Robert Lowell, who described her as 'a mermaid who dines upon the bones of her winded lovers'. In the 1970s Blackwood began to write. Her novel Great Granny Webster was shortlisted for the 1977 Booker Prize.
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