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Leo Walsh
Nov 18, 2018 rated it it was amazing
TURN OF THE SCREW is a classic tale. A literary ghost story where you're certain of nothing. It's told by the governess, an unreliable first-person narrator if ever there was one.

When as a young girl the governess is hired to oversee the upbringing of Miles and Flora, children of 10 and 6 respectively, she finds herself isolated in a creepy old manor house. And she's bitten off more than she can chew. She's seeing ghosts of her predecessor Jesssel and a valet named Quint, both of whom died in m
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