TY  - BOOK
AU  - Biller,Anna
TI  - Bluebeard's castle: a novel 
SN  - 9781804291856
PY  - 2023///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Verso
KW  - Man-woman relationships
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Women novelists
KW  - Marriage
KW  - Abused women
KW  - Castles
KW  - Gothic fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Thrillers (Fiction)
KW  - Psychological fiction
KW  - Novels
N2  - "Judith is a successful novelist from a good family, even if that family favors her more beautiful sister. Her desperate yearning for romance appears close to satisfaction when she meets Gavin, a handsome and charming baron, at a wedding on the Cornish coast. His love transforms her from a plain, lonely girl into a beautiful, glamorous woman overnight. But soon her perfect marriage begins to fall apart, and she finds herself trapped in a nightmare. As Judith battles both internal and external demons, including sexual ambivalence, psychological self-torture, gaslighting, family neglect, alcoholism, and domestic abuse, she becomes more and more addicted to her wild beast of a husband, and more and more determined to tame him. The book poses the question: "Why do women stay with bad men?""--
ER  -