![]() ![]() This is a novel about which it is difficult to write without potential spoilers, and so while I am intending to keep this short – I can’t promise the following won’t be a tad spoilery. That nightmare thing of trying to get people to believe the unbelievable, of having no way out of a situation with only one possible horrifying conclusion. The horror lies in the way the story plays upon the reader’s fears of entrapment and loss of control and confusion of identity. ![]() The Victorian Chaise-Longue is generally described as a horror story. So, I decided to give it a try – after all it’s very short. I knew however, that I liked Marghanita Laski’s writing, her female characters particularly are very real, flawed and believable, and her novel Little Boy Lost is one of the most poignantly heart-rending novels I have ever read (that’s not a criticism). This disturbing – but compelling little novel, is one I hadn’t thought I wanted to read. ![]()
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