02196cam a2200361 i 4500 1742730660 TxAuBib 20250218120000.0 250121s2025||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781631498633 HRD 24.99 1631498630 HRD 24.99 (OCoLC)1485475464 TxAuBib rda Feito, Virginia. Victorian psycho [BOOK] : a novel / Virginia Feito. First edition. New York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2025] ©2025. 195 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "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.". 20250218. Governesses Fiction. Dysfunctional families Fiction. Upper class Fiction. Murder Fiction. Christmas Fiction. Great Britain History Victoria, 1837-1901 Fiction. Gothic fiction. Horror fiction.