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The House of Stairs by Barbara Vine
βThere is no time in our lives when we are so conspicuously without mercy as in adolescence.β I don’t think I would ever picked up this ‘obscure’ and forgotten novel if it hadn’t been for the ‘crime fiction’ module I took during my second year of uni. Thanks to that module, which was in every…
1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1st pov, ABSOLUTE FAVOURITE, Adult, adulthood, ALIENATION, ART/CREATIVITY, atmospheric, bad love, Barbara Vine, beautiful prose, BISEXUAL/PANSEXUAL, books about books, books about writers, British author, class, CRIME, domestic thriller, england, f/f, favourite authors, female authors, first love, friendships, GOTHIC, GUILT, heartbreak/breakups, HISTORICAL FICTION, House As Character, identity, illness, introspective, it’s about the *yearning*, lgbtq+, LITERARY FICTION, LONDON, loneliness, Longing, manor/big house, MEMORY, modern gothic, MURDER, murder mystery, MYSTERY, obsession, psychological, Psychological thriller, psychopaths, published in 1988, queer, re-reads, read in 2018, read in 2020, read in 2022, rich people, sapphic, SEXUALITY, strong sense of place, SUSPENSE, the female malaise, The House of Stairs, toxic relationships, unrequited love, whydunnit -
The Chimney Sweeper’s Boy by Barbara Vine
βI want to be in love. I want to be possessed and obsessed by it, I want the sky to change colour and the sun to shine all the time. I want to long for the phone to ring and pace the room when it doesnβt. I want to be breathless at the sound of…
1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 20th century, 3rd pov, 5 STARS, Adult, Barbara Vine, books about books, books about writers, British author, domestic thriller, england, family, GENDER, GRIEF, LITERARY FICTION, literary references, MARRIAGE, MYSTERY, psychological, published in 1998, read in 2018, Ruth Rendell, SISTERS, SUSPENSE, The Chimney Sweeper’s Boy
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