As fear spreads through the school and Lucy isn't Lucy anymore, fantasy and reality mingle until what is true and what is dreamed bleed together into a waking nightmare that evokes with gothic menace the anxieties, lusts, and fears of adolescence. A chilling debut, in the best gothic style, about the odd goings-on in a girls boarding. Around her swirl dark rumors, suspicions, and secrets as well as a series of ominous disasters. by Rachel Klein RELEASE DATE: July 1, 2002. Ernessa is an enigmatic, moody presence with pale skin and hypnotic eyes. The object of her growing obsession is her roommate, Lucy Blake, and Lucy's friendship with their new and disturbing classmate. At an exclusive girls' boarding school, a sixteen-year-old girl records her most intimate thoughts in a diary. Lucy and Ernessa have become inseparable. At an exclusive girls' boarding school, a sixteen-year-old girl records her most intimate thoughts in a diary. An isolated sixteen-year-old girls' boarding school student recounts in her diary her growing paranoia that a fellow classmate is responsible for her best friend's wasting illness as well as a series of other disasters, a suspicion she is unable to confirm or deny years later.
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