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Title The unsuitable : a novel / Molly Pohlig.
Author Pohlig, Molly, author.
Imprint New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2020.

Location Call No. Note Status
 Shannon Staub Fiction  POHLIG    ON SHELF
Call # POHLIG
Phys. Desc. 271 pages ; 22 cm
Summary Molly Pohlig's The Unsuitable is a fierce blend of Gothic ghost story and Victorian novel of manners that's also pitch perfect for our current cultural moment. Iseult Wince is a Victorian woman perilously close to spinsterhood whose distinctly unpleasant father is trying to marry her off. She is awkward, plain, and most pertinently, believes that her mother, who died in childbirth, lives in the scar on her neck. Iseult's father parades a host of unsuitable candidates before her, the majority of whom Iseult wastes no time frightening away. When at last her father finds a suitor desperate enough to take Iseult off his hands -- a man whose medical treatments have turned his skin silver -- a true comedy of errors ensues. As history's least conventional courtship progresses into talk of marriage, Iseult's mother becomes increasingly volatile and uncontrollable, and Iseult is forced to resort to extreme, often violent, measures to keep her in check. As the day of the wedding nears, Iseult must decide whether (and how) to set the course of her life, with increasing interference from both her mother and father, tipping her ever closer to madness, and to an inevitable, devastating final act.
Subject Fathers and daughters -- Fiction.
Courtship -- Fiction.
Marriage -- Fiction.
FICTION / Gothic. bisacsh
FICTION / Romance / Historical / Victorian. bisacsh
FICTION / Women. bisacsh
Marriage. fast (OCoLC)fst01010443
Fathers and daughters. fast (OCoLC)fst00921890
Courtship. fast (OCoLC)fst00881873
Genre Gothic fiction. lcgft
Fiction. fast (OCoLC)fst01423787
Gothic fiction. fast (OCoLC)fst01921675
Historical fiction. fast (OCoLC)fst01726640
Ghost stories. gsafd
Gothic fiction. gsafd
Historical fiction. gsafd
Historical fiction. lcgft
ISBN 9781250246288
1250246288




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