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Dark Companion
Paperback
FamilyGeneral Juvenile Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Mar 19 2020
Pages: 342
Weight: 0.87
Height: 0.76 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Dripping in delicious Gothicism. From the quotes of Mary Shelley and Bram Stoker, to Jane's eerie preoccupation and connection to the whispering birch trees... Acosta plays brilliantly with Gothic conventions. -Danielle Binks, Alpha Reader
A breath of fresh air in a genre marked by creaky gender relations and unchallenged class stratification. -Kirkus Reviews
A powerful and darkly entrancing gothic novel that, like its diamond-in-the-rough heroine, takes commonplace elements and turns them into something dazzling. -Alice Marvels
Determined and watchful foster teen Jane Williams thinks she's finally escaped violence and poverty when she's offered a full scholarship to prestigious Birch Grove Academy. She's given a cottage of her own, an allowance, and access to an extraordinary education. She even begins tutoring the headmistress's striking son, Lucien.
But as Jane settles into this beautiful, rarefied world, she begins to sense that its comforts require a far more dangerous bargain.
A haunting, atmospheric novel immersed in the classic Gothic traditions that came before-including those by Anne Radcliffe, Bram Stoker, and Charlotte Brontë-and the eternal spirit of girls and women who discover themselves by turning to face the monsters.
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