Victorian Psycho

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Victorian Psycho
by Virginia Feito

ISBN: 9781631498633
Hardcover, new
Publication Date: 2/4/2025

Brief Description:
Virginia Feito’s Mrs. March was hailed as “a brilliant debut . . . [by] a
writer who keeps pace with the grandees she invokes” (Sarah Ditum,
Guardian)–from Daphne Du Maurier and Shirley Jackson to Patricia
Highsmith. Now, Feito returns with her “silver-polish sentences and her
eerie psychological acumen” (Constance Grady, Vox) to unleash an entirely
new antihero on us all. Grim Wolds, England: Winifred Notty arrives at
Ensor House prepared to play the perfect governess–she’ll dutifully tutor
her charges, Drusilla and Andrew, tell them bedtime stories, and only joke
about eating children. But long, listless days spent within the estate’s
dreary confines come with an intimate knowledge of the perversions and
pathetic preoccupations of the Pounds family–Mr. Pounds can’t keep his
eyes off Winifred’s chest, and Mrs. Pounds takes a sickly pleasure in
punishing Winifred for her husband’s wandering gaze. Compounded with her
disdain for the entitled Pounds children, Winifred finds herself struggling
at every turn to stifle the violent compulsions of her past. French
tutoring and needlework are one way to pass the time, as is admiring the
ugly portraits in the gallery . . . and creeping across the moonlit lawns.
. . . Patience. Winifred must have patience, for Christmas is coming, and
she has very special gifts planned for the dear souls of Ensor House.
Brimming with sardonic wit and culminating in a shocking conclusion,
Victorian Psycho plunges readers into the chilling mind of an iconic new
literary psychopath.