![]() ![]() We observe her through her psychiatrist's eyes, analysing everything. When the diarist says she doesn't care about something, we know exactly how much she cares. Rachel Klein plays brilliantly with the "unreliable narrator" device. ![]() Is it bad luck, or is it caused by creepy Ernessa, the object of the diarist's jealous spite? Is Ernessa a vampire, or is this the melodramatic imagination of a psychotic and grieving girl? Does she really see Ernessa sucking blood from Lucy, or was she hallucinating? And is Lucy's increasing weakness simply caused by anorexia? Death does visit Brangwyn Hall several times. Every girl wallows in parental abandonment, clinging to friendships with a Sapphic intensity food is friend and foe, to be gorged or rejected life must be lived dangerously, with the need to risk death with self-starvation, drugs, suicide attempts, or crawling along gutters 100 feet up. It's a night-time world of obsession, passion, blood - and death. Forget jolly hockey-sticks - this is no Malory Towers. Set in 1960s America, it is the diary of an unnamed 16-year-old, who has been sent to a girls' boarding school after her father's suicide. ![]()
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