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The Medusa Child

A novel, translated by Liz Nash. Lucie Daubigne is an adventurous eight-year old whose idyllic childhood ends when, given a new room of her own, she is visited by an ogre. It is their secret, and if she tells anyone she will be sorry; so Lucie becomes the ogre's third victim, and is abused each night by her stepbrother Ferdinand. She becomes strange, drawing into herself, waiting in dread for the nightly visit.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 247
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781873982310
  • Genres
  • fiction, france
  • Release date
  • 2015