The Fate of Mary Rose: The rediscovered dark masterpiece for fans of Shirley Jackson

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Caroline Blackwood

The Fate of Mary Rose

The rediscovered dark masterpiece for fans of Shirley Jackson

Caroline Blackwood

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Virago
11 February 2025

Fiction & Literature; Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

Series: Virago Modern Classics

THE PITCH-BLACK REDISCOVERED CLASSIC OF 2024

From the Booker-shortlisted author of Great Granny Webster, this twisted modern classic is perfect for fans of Shirley Jackson and Celia Dale.

'One of the greatest, darkest writers who ever lived' Virginia Feito

'This chillingly profound story drips with classy darkness. . . a one-way descent into the abyss' Janice Hallett

'A dark masterpiece' Camilla Grudova

'I absolutely loved this . . . Creepy, atmospheric and dark as a village green at midnight' Alice Slater

'A devastating investigation of neurosis, hysteria and cruelty' Observer

'I read it with wide eyes and unsavoury glee' Sunday Times

'Caroline Blackwood sits firmly alongside the greats like Shirley Jackson and Patricia Highsmith' Araminta Hall

'Compulsive, cruel and brilliant' Daily Mail

'Gimlet-eyed and masterful' Irish Independent
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She was dead even before I became aware of her existence . . .

A child has been abducted from a sleepy Kent village, her face plastered across the media.

As the crime unleashes a wave of hysteria, the claustrophobic world of Rowan Anderson and his inscrutable wife begins to disintegrate. Consumed by her macabre fixation, Cressida is determined to save their sickly daughter, Mary Rose, from the same fate - and perhaps even from Rowan himself.

With caustic wit and pitch-black brilliance, Caroline Blackwood creates a skin-crawling - and utterly compulsive - story of repressed violence, female rage, and maternal obsession.

INTRODUCED BY CAMILLA GRUDOVA

By: Caroline Blackwood
Imprint: Virago
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 196mm, Width: 126mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 195g
ISBN: 9780349019048
ISBN 10: 0349019045
Series: Virago Modern Classics
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 11 February 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Caroline Blackwood (1931-1996) was born into a rich Anglo-Irish aristocratic family. She rebelled against her background at an early age and led a hectic and bohemian life, which included marriages to the painter Lucian Freud, the pianist and composer Israel Citkowitz, and the poet Robert Lowell, who described her as 'a mermaid who dines upon the bones of her winded lovers'. In the 1970s Blackwood began to write. Her novel Great Granny Webster was shortlisted for the 1977 Booker Prize.