He’s Humbert, I’m Dolores
Emily Witt, 21 May 2020
My Dark Vanessa
by Kate Elizabeth Russell.
Fourth Estate, 384 pp., £12.99, March 2020,978 0 00 834224 1 Show More
by Kate Elizabeth Russell.
Fourth Estate, 384 pp., £12.99, March 2020,
“... it in 2018 for more than a million dollars. The blurbs from people like Gillian Flynn and Stephen King (‘stunning’, ‘gripping’, ‘brilliant’) led me to believe I was sitting down to a thriller, but there are no unexpected plot twists here. In a disclaimer, Russell says any similarities with her own upbringing – she grew up in Maine and withdrew ... ”