{"product_id":"9781961341128","title":"The Stepdaughter","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eA wicked stepmother finds her ideal prey in Carlone Blackwood's “quite brilliant” (\u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e) debut.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA lavish Upper West Side apartment is the site of a familial cold war about to enter a phase of dangerous escalation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJ is a lonely woman without even the luxury of being alone. Her husband has fled to Paris with his latest flame, but he’s left J not only with their own four-year-old daughter, Sally Ann, but with the sulky cake-mix addicted, thirteen-year-old Renata, a leftover from his previous marriage. The presence of a pert au pair, Monique, serves only to make J feel more isolated and self-conscious. What she’d like is someone to blame.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWriting letters in her head to imaginary friends, J delights in dwelling on the hapless Renata, who “invites a kind of cruelty.” This is an invitation J fully intends to take up—and like so many stepmothers before her, she will find that wickedness, once indulged, is a difficult habit to kick. A mordant black splinter of a book, Caroline Blackwood’s first novel stands as proof positive of her eternal mastery—and mockery—of the darkest depths of human feeling.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback | 112 pages | 5.00\" x 8.50\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Caroline Blackwood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45490062655720,"sku":"9781961341128x","price":25.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0386\/5896\/5549\/files\/BNCImageAPI_36d416db-d5b1-4fc3-9544-2cbb38973ad6.jpg?v=1708536102","url":"https:\/\/typebooks.live\/products\/9781961341128","provider":"TYPE Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}