At an exclusive girls' boarding school, a sixteen-year-old girl records her most intimate thoughts in a diary. The object of her obsession is her room-mate, Lucy Blake, and Lucy's friendship with their new and disturbing classmate. Ernessa is a mysterious presence with pale skin and hypnotic eyes. Around her swirl dark secrets and a series of ominous disasters. As fear spreads through the school, fantasy and reality mingle into a waking nightmare of gothic menace, fuelled by the lusts and fears of adolescence.
And at the centre of the diary is the question that haunts all who read it: Is Ernessa really a vampire? Or is the narrator trapped in her own fevered imagination?
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 9780571259489
Number of pages: 256
Weight: 205 g
Dimensions: 198 x 127 x 21 mm
Edition: Main
This gothic story is intoxicating, as it completely envelopes you into its intricate plot. I loved the character of Ernessa, who is truly frightening, and the way in which Rachel Klein makes the reader feel as though... More
The narrator slowly draws you into her world and way of thinking so convincingly that you're never quite sure of the truth of the events that unfold. Rachel Klein leaves things tantalisingly unexplained but... More
'The Moth Diaries' by Rachel Klein is an absorbing psychological thriller. Klein entwines the horrors of adolescence with elements of gothic horror to create a deeply captivating book. Both a homage to... More
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