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The stepdaughter
Blackwood, Caroline2025
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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.
Main title:
The stepdaughter / Caroline Blackwood.
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Imprint:
London : Virago, 2025.London : Virago, 2025.
Collation:
112 pages ; 20 cm.
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Notes:
Originally published: New York: Scribner, 1976.
ISBN:
9780349019468 (pbk)
Language:
English
BRN:
3039034