Accidental Darlings

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'Delightfully subversive, I loved it' RED

The darkly funny new novel from Polari Prize-shortlisted author Crystal Jeans, inspired in part by Dickens' Great Expectations…

It’s 1924, and the village of Skimpole is full of secrets.

When Anastasia’s mother dies, she must move in with ‘the Aunt’ – a writer, too fearsome for a first name, who lives in a dilapidated mansion with her dogs.

But mysteries abound: who wrote the raunchy love letters she discovers in the Aunt’s bedroom, signed ‘Big Willy’? Why do the villagers hate the Aunt so much? And how did Anastasia’s father, who passed before she was born, really die?

When the Aunt’s friends arrive at the house one summer, wreathed in cigarette smoke and an air of debauchery, Anastasia may be closer to finding answers – but the truth will turn her world upside down…

Crystal JeansSofia EngstrandThe Borough Press

Coming of Age

Family Life

Genre Fiction

Gothic

Horror

Literature & Fiction

Village

Funny

Witty

Tobacco

Coming of Age Family Life Genre Fiction Gothic Horror Literature & Fiction Village Funny Witty Tobacco

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