The Moth Diaries
Author | : Rachel Klein |
Publisher | : Faber & Faber |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2012-06-07 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780571296569 |
ISBN-13 | : 0571296564 |
Rating | : 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: At an exclusive girls' boarding school, a sixteen-year-old girl records her most intimate thoughts in a diary. The object of her obsession is her room-mate, Lucy Blake, and Lucy's friendship with their new and disturbing classmate. Ernessa is a mysterious presence with pale skin and hypnotic eyes. Around her swirl dark secrets and a series of ominous disasters. As fear spreads through the school, fantasy and reality mingle into a waking nightmare of gothic menace, fuelled by the lusts and fears of adolescence. And at the centre of the diary is the question that haunts all who read it: Is Ernessa really a vampire? Or is the narrator trapped in her own fevered imagination?