Virginia Feito's Mrs. March was hailed as "a brilliant debut . . . [by] a writer who keeps pace
with the grandees she invokes" (Sarah Ditum Guardian )-from Daphne Du Maurier and Shirley
Jackson to Patricia Highsmith. Now Feito returns with her "silver-polish sentences and her
eerie psychological acumen" (Constance Grady Vox ) to unleash an entirely new antihero on us
all. Grim Wolds England : Winifred Notty arrives at Ensor House prepared to play the perfect
governess-she'll dutifully tutor her charges Drusilla and Andrew tell them bedtime stories
and only joke about eating children. But long listless days spent within the estate's dreary
confines come with an intimate knowledge of the perversions and pathetic preoccupations of the
Pounds family-Mr. Pounds can't keep his eyes off Winifred's chest and Mrs. Pounds takes a
sickly pleasure in punishing Winifred for her husband's wandering gaze. Compounded with her
disdain for the entitled Pounds children Winifred finds herself struggling at every turn to
stifle the violent compulsions of her past. French tutoring and needlework are one way to pass
the time as is admiring the ugly portraits in the gallery . . . and creeping across the
moonlit lawns. . . . Patience. Winifred must have patience for Christmas is coming and she
has very special gifts planned for the dear souls of Ensor House. Brimming with sardonic wit
and culminating in a shocking conclusion Victorian Psycho plunges readers into the chilling
mind of an iconic new literary psychopath.
