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Author Pohlig, Molly, author.

Title The unsuitable / Molly Pohlig.

Publisher New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2020.

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LOCATION CALL NO. STATUS
 South Portland Main Adult Fic  F    AVAILABLE  
Edition First edition.
Physical Description 271 pages ; 22 cm
Note A novel.
Summary 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.... 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.
Historical fiction.
Gothic fiction.
Ghost stories.