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A live-in nanny that spets into a nightmare and a child ends up dead, in this new book The Turn of The Key. Sorry. The Turn of the what now? The Screw?
Lihsa Ware wrote an ode to The Turn of the Screw.

It is modern retelling written in the same epistolary style (in TOS, the narrator is reading a manuscript …moreWare wrote an ode to The Turn of the Screw.

It is modern retelling written in the same epistolary style (in TOS, the narrator is reading a manuscript that portends to be written by the governess).

The TOK also has an unreliable narrator with repressed anger towards her father, sexual repression and possible insanity.

Ware did a very good job of this, I thought.(less)
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