![]() ![]() This is where their bodies are later discovered with a copy of Mary’s book splayed beside them, the victims of a swarm of stinging, angry yellow jackets. They meet in secret in a nearby apple orchard, the setting of their wildest happiness and, ultimately, of their macabre deaths. To show their devotion to Mary, the girls establish their own private club and call it The Plain Bad Heroine Society. Flo and Clara, two impressionable students, are obsessed with each other and with a daring young writer named Mary MacLane, the author of a scandalous bestselling memoir. Our story begins in 1902, at The Brookhants School for Girls. Trigger Warnings: death, animal attack, gaslighting, murder, attempted sexual assault, curses, unwanted pregnancy, manipulative behaviour, drowning. Thanks to The Borough Press for the ARC of this book. I adored this book and I can’t believe it’s finally out in the UK next week! If you like sapphics, twisting storylines and creepy horror, be sure to pick this one up! ![]() This horror thriller set in a boarding school with dual timelines was a highly anticipated release of mine, so I was so excited to get one of the gorgeous ARCs. ![]() That version, as with so many of the stories we tell about our history, erased a woman- a plain, bad heroine- in favor of a less messy and more palatable yarn about two feuding brothers from New England. ![]()
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