Rottenheart by Kat Dunn #foliosociety even if it means compromising

even if it means compromising herself and the half-alien children who bear the weight of her investigation

' GUARDIAN 'Few can match Uglow's skill at conjuring up a scene

ISBN: 9780500028889

a British connoisseur and the woman who created the most spectacular library in America - all of them were participants in what Christopher de Hamel calls the Manuscripts Club

Rottenheart by Kat Dunn #foliosociety even if it means compromisingOdette and Cecilia are young women, living between their grand homes in Hampstead and the imposing, ancient Herne House in Suffolk. Though Odette's artist mother Lydia keeps a tight grasp on her, she and her beloved Cecilia are mostly left free to roam, to learn and to love. But when Lydia inexplicably sickens and dies, a dark veil falls. As the funeral rites are performed, Odette's aunt, the cold and implacable Claudine, increasingly takes charge of