The premise of this chilling story is a simple yet highly effective one. Ideal lockdown reading for the more sensitive among you! What I will say upfront is that the experience of reading this novella feels somewhat akin to being trapped in a terrifying COVID fever dream from times past.
It’s a difficult book to say very much about without revealing key elements of the premise so, if you’re thinking of reading it and would prefer to know as little as possible before going in, look away now. But then, back in December, the Backlisted team featured Laski’s 1953 novella, The Victorian Chaise-Longue, on an episode of their podcast, and the decision was made for me. (Five of her novels are currently in print with Persephone Books.) My original intention had been to start with her 1949 novel, Little Boy Lost, which focuses on a man’s search for his lost son in post-WW2 France. I have long wanted to read Marghanita Laski, the British writer and broadcaster who came to prominence in the 1940s and ‘50s.
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