![]() ![]() The champion of the story is its setting. Sophia becomes a proactive heroine determined to exhume the secrets of the Abbey by reaching out to its inhabitants and neighbors. Several changes from the Charles Perrault version refashion the cautionary tale into a Gothic mystery with supernatural elements, drawing parallels between Sophia’s gilded cage and the trials of slave life. ![]() This awakening brings the realization of how isolated Sophia’s world has become, and how little she really knows about her host.įrom debut novelist Jane Nickerson comes this re-imagining of Bluebeard and his many wives. However, Sophia soon discovers an eerie commonality between de Cressac’s former wives and herself: they all have hair in strands of bronze and gold. ![]() Sophia Petheram enters her godfather’s world as an orphan and is captivated by his gusto for life. Tucked away in a backwater Mississippi town is Wyndriven Abbey, home of the mysterious, intoxicating Bernard de Cressac. ![]()
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