And soon it’s impossible to tell quite where the curse ends and Hollywood begins. But as the crew of glamorous young actresses assemble to start filming, past and present begin to blur. Now, the school’s doors are open once more. Three more grisly deaths followed before the school was forced to close. A few months later they were found dead in the woods, after a horrific wasp attack, the book lying next to their intertwined bodies. In the early 1900’s, Brookhants students Flo and Clara fell madly in love, brought together by their obsession for a scandalous memoir. Absolutely fantastic - this book has big NIGHT FILM energy but also weaves in a time-hopping story that never drags, never feels too long even at just-over-600 pages, and genuinely. ’īrookhants School for Girls is the infamous site of a series of tragic deaths over a hundred years ago, and is soon to be the subject of a controversial horror movie about the rumoured ‘Brookhants curse’. ‘It’s a terrible story and one way to tell it is this: two girls in love and a fog of wasps cursed the place forever after. I think the inherent queerness in this book and its characters made it addictive to me, watching queer women coming together and forming the kind of intense bonds that I know myself from gravitating towards other LGBT+ people even unintentionally. ‘Beguilingly clever, very sexy and seriously frightening’ Guardian on Emily M. Plain Bad Heroines was, in equal measures, empowering and frightening.
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