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''Delightfully subversive, I loved it'' REDThe darkly funny new novel from Polari Prize-shortlisted author Crystal Jeans, inspired in part by Dickens'' Great ExpectationsIn the night, I slept with my head under a shawl, listening to the ceaseless low groans of the house, telling myself that my mother would never have sent me to live with a murderer or a witch or a Miss Havisham1924.When Anastasia's beloved mother dies, she has no choice but to go to rural Skimpole and move in with the Aunt' too fearsome for a first name, an outcast from the village who lives in a dilapidated mansion with two servants and an unruly pack of dogs.The many mysteries of Skimpole are irresistibly intriguing: how did Anastasia's father really die? Who wrote the extremely raunchy love letters she has found in the Aunt's bedroom, signed Big Willy'? And why does everyone in the village hate the Aunt so much?When some of the Aunt's friends from her youth arrive at the house, wreathed in cigarette smoke and an ai

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      Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 8/1/2024
      ISBN13: 9780008657567, 978-0008657567
      ISBN10: 0008657564
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      ''Delightfully subversive, I loved it'' REDThe darkly funny new novel from Polari Prize-shortlisted author Crystal Jeans, inspired in part by Dickens'' Great ExpectationsIn the night, I slept with my head under a shawl, listening to the ceaseless low groans of the house, telling myself that my mother would never have sent me to live with a murderer or a witch or a Miss Havisham1924.When Anastasia's beloved mother dies, she has no choice but to go to rural Skimpole and move in with the Aunt' too fearsome for a first name, an outcast from the village who lives in a dilapidated mansion with two servants and an unruly pack of dogs.The many mysteries of Skimpole are irresistibly intriguing: how did Anastasia's father really die? Who wrote the extremely raunchy love letters she has found in the Aunt's bedroom, signed Big Willy'? And why does everyone in the village hate the Aunt so much?When some of the Aunt's friends from her youth arrive at the house, wreathed in cigarette smoke and an ai

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