Lizzie

Dawn Ius

• 09 april 2019
• 9781481490771

Samenvatting:

&;Startling, visceral, and heartbreaking.&; &;Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

From acclaimed author Dawn Ius comes an edge-of-your-seat reimagining of one of the most chilling mysteries in modern history&;Lizzie Borden.

Seventeen-year-old Lizzie Borden has never been kissed. Polite but painfully shy, Lizzie prefers to stay in the kitchen, where she can dream of becoming a chef and escape her reality. With tyrannical parents who force her to work at the family&;s B&B and her blackout episodes&;a medical condition that has plagued her since her first menstrual cycle&;Lizzie longs for a life of freedom, the time and space to just figure out who she is and what she wants.

Enter the effervescent, unpredictable Bridget Sullivan. Bridget has joined the B&B&;s staff as the new maid, and Lizzie is instantly drawn to her artistic style and free spirit&;even her Star Wars obsession is kind of cute. The two of them forge bonds that quickly turn into something that&;s maybe more than friendship.

But when her parents try to restrain Lizzie from living the life she wants, it sparks something in her that she can&;t quite figure out. Her blackout episodes start getting worse, her instincts less and less reliable. Lizzie is angry, certainly, but she also feels like she&;s going mad&;