Description
Winifred Notty arrives at Ensor House to begin her new job as governess to the two children living there. She is to teach Andrew how to be a young, respectable man and Drusilla how to be a polite and dutiful woman. Only there’s something not quite right with Winifred. She is the epitome of the unreliable narrator, and as the story grows, the reader soon learns something is wrong with her.
She constantly thinks of death and dismemberment, and how one might cause such things. She imagines causing members of the family pain and suffering. Not to mention what has happened in her past, with her previous employer, employees, and her very own family. Things come to a true head with the Christmas Party, where things are anything but jolly, except for Winifred Notty, it seems.
Virginia Feito delighted readers in her debut novel, Mrs. March, and now returns with this darkly humored short novel á la American Psycho in Victorian times which will have readers secretly laughing to themselves at the suffering befalling these horrible people, but also covering their mouths in shock at how the blood is spilled.