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Victorian Psycho

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'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, GUARDIANWinifred 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.NOW BEING ADAPTED FOR A MAJOR FILM BY A24What 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'

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ISBN9780008739591
PublisherHarper Collins Publ. UK
Publication Date02/13/25
Pages195

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  • annxchrstn
    annxchrstn

    38 Followers

    4.5

    Slasher trifft auf Female Rage

    Winifrid Notty - eine Frau, die Rache sucht. Wofür? Das erfahren wir erst kurz vor Ende, es bleibt lange Geheim, wieso sie auf Ensor House eine Hauslehrerin werden wollte und der Pounds-Familie „helfen“ möchte. Schon von Anfang an können wir sehen, das Winifred keine Angst vor Tod, Mord und Blut hat, so bringt sie zu allererst ein Reh um. Und damit geht die Geschichte schon los, wir stecken mitten drin in einem mysteriösen Fall, werden mitgezogen und fühlen uns als Leser*in total hilflos und mitgezogen. Ein tolles, spannendes und mitreißendes Buch mit einem Twist, den man so nicht erwartet und mehr als einem Blultbad.

    May 29, 2026

  • alethya
    alethya

    2 Followers

    3.0

    ‘I fail to understand why men think violence will intimidate women. Women, who bleed all over themselves every month. Women who burst open in childbirth.’ Short and very fun read. From feminism to eat the rich, this was delightful in the best ways. Though, once again, the book probably could do with a few CWs. My E-Book version did not include them. So be wary if any of those topics are not for you: body horror, child abuse, child/baby death, animal torture, animal death, violence, gory scenes

    Sep 5, 2025

  • alisareads
    alisareads

    18 Followers

    0.5

    Hab mich zu Tode gelangweilt.

    Jan 3, 2026

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