‘Victorian Psycho’ – Virginia Feito (4th Estate)
Page Count: 192 Pages Winifred 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. Long time readers of this blog have probably worked out, by now, that while I don’t mind a little gothic fiction (every now and then), you will likely never find a books featuring Victorian governesses in my TBR pile. Until now that is :o) When a title and blurb like this ap...