Accidental Darlings

''Delightfully subversive, I loved it'' REDThe darkly funny new novel from Polari Prize-shortlisted author Crystal Jeans, inspired in part by Dickens'' Great Expectations…In the night, I slept wit ...

''Delightfully subversive, I loved it'' REDThe darkly funny new novel from Polari Prize-shortlisted author Crystal Jeans, inspired in part by Dickens'' Great Expectations…In the night, I slept with my head under a shawl, listening to the ceaseless low groans of the house, telling myself that my mother would never have sent me to live with a murderer or a witch or a Miss Havisham…1924.When Anastasia’s beloved mother dies, she has no choice but to go to rural Skimpole and move in with ‘the Aunt’ – too fearsome for a first name, an outcast from the village who lives in a dilapidated mansion with