Wickedly irresistible, Danforth’s artful combination of queer love story, gothic horror and Hollywood satire finds a film production fall prey to the curse of Brookhants School for Girls and the horrific wasp-related deaths that blight its past.
It's a terrible story and one way to tell it is this: two girls in love and a fog of wasps cursed the place forever after...
BROOKHANTS SCHOOL FOR GIRLS.
Infamous site of a series of tragic deaths over a hundred years ago.
Soon to be the subject of a controversial horror movie about the rumoured 'Brookhants curse':
In the early 1900's, Brookhants students Flo and Clara fell madly in love, brought together by their obsession for a scandalous memoir.
A few months later they were found dead in the woods, after a horrific wasp attack, the book lying next to their intertwined bodies.
Three more grisly deaths followed before the school was forced to close.
Now, the school's doors are open once more. But as the crew of glamorous young actresses assemble to start filming, past and present begin to blur. And soon it's impossible to tell quite where the curse ends and Hollywood begins...
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 9780008346959
Number of pages: 640
Weight: 440 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 40 mm
‘Brimming from start to finish with sly humour and gothic mischief, Plain Bad Heroines is a brilliant piece of exuberant storytelling by a terrifically talented author’ SARAH WATERS ‘Full of Victorian sapphic romance, metafictional horror, biting misandrist humor, Hollywood intrigue, and multiple timeliness—all replete with evocative illustrations that are icing on a deviously delicious cake’ O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE ‘A gloriously over-the-top queer romp’ I PAPER, top picks for 2021 ‘Big and messy – and immensely enjoyable’ I PAPER ‘Spooky, sexy and immensely entertaining’ CLAIRE HENNESSY,THE IRISH TIMES ‘I can tell you that it is a ride very much worth taking. One full of the Gothic and the glamour, brimming with historically bad heroines and women with warped predilections, but there is one thing I have failed to mention so far: the yellowjackets. Their buzzing echoes eerily throughout the pages of Plain Bad Heroines, the consequences of their repeated stings are devastating and reverberate across the centuries’ DIVA MAGAZINE ‘Plain Bad Heroines is immersive, addictive, frustrating and highly entertaining featuring a brilliant cast of extremely eccentric, yet very intriguing, characters. A tale made for the big screen I would think!’ SWIRL AND THREAD ‘Immensely enjoyable’ SCOTSMAN ‘A labyrinthine tale in every way, slowly unfolding horror after horror with a sense of creeping dread and inevitability invading every page’ Palatinate
I was really looking forward to reading this book - a gothic horror story set in a boarding school, with hints of miss Jean Brodie and some mysterious deaths - what's not to like?
However, for me, the reality...
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In 1902, at a remote school for girls, the death of two students, founding members of the “Plain Bad Heroine Society” whose members are obsessed with the memoir of a young writer, eventually leads to the school’s... More
Or badness, I suppose.
Plain Bad Heroines contains two stories- the story of the gruesome deaths at Brookhants school for girls and the havoc it wreaks amidst students and faculty alike; and the modern day tale of...
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