Winifred Notty arrives at Ensor house to be governess to Drusilla and Andrew. She’s determined to play the role perfectly, bedtime stories play games but being confined within Ensor House and subjected to the petty whims of the Pounds family Winifred finds herself struggling to stifle her violent compulsions. Patience, all she needs is patience Christmas is coming and such special gifts planned for the family, shockingly special gifts. This is one of the best things I read in 2025, the whole novel is just one thing after another and by the end of it you are slightly left feeling what the hell did I just read and ist’t that…

1887, the Netherlands, Lucy receives word that her twin sister Sarah is ill. In the process of excavating the bog surrounding their isolated mansion, Sarah and her husband have discovered a body. A bog Body. a perfectly preserved body of a woman, in fact, and Sarah has developed an obsession with it, an increasingly irrational one. Lucy worried that Sarah’s husband would have her committed to an insane asylum, goes to visit her sister, intending to care for her and to investigate the cause of this sudden illness. It’s clear that Sarah is hiding something, but then again, so is Lucy. When Sarah’s condition takes a turn for the worse,…