Book description
Discover Caroline Blackwood's darkly brilliant debut - a perfect rediscovered classic for fans of Shirley Jackson and Ottessa Moshfegh
'A bracingly nasty book . . . Splendid, dark, often very funny' MEGAN NOLAN, Telegraph
A lavish Upper West Side apartment is the site of a familial cold war about to…
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Why read it?
1 author picked The Stepdaughter as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
"Their hatred haunts me..."
Told via a series of unmailed letters, 'The Stepdaughter' is a dark comedy about a dysfunctional family unit, detailed with the author's typical cruel wit and eagerness to share the sort of spiteful insights that most people (and writers) would rather keep to themselves. A jilted wife, under self-inflicted house arrest in her Manhattan apartment, vents her resentment about life upon the teenage stepdaughter of her selfish husband's first marriage, especially irked by the way 13 year old Renata gorges herself on homemade cakes and then constantly blocks up the toilet as a result. Then…
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