{"product_id":"the-stepdaughter-mcnally-editions-1961341123","title":"The Stepdaughter (McNally Editions)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1961341123\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Blackwood, Caroline\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA wicked stepmother finds her ideal prey in Carlone Blackwood's quite brilliant (The Times) debut.A lavish Upper West Side apartment is the site of a familial cold war about to enter a phase of dangerous escalation.J is a lonely woman without even the luxury of being alone. Her husband has fled to Paris with his latest flame, but hes left J not only with their own four-year-old daughter, Sally Ann, but with the sulky cake-mix addicted, thirteen-year-old Renata, a leftover from his previous marriage. The presence of a pert au pair, Monique, serves only to make J feel more isolated and self-conscious. What shed like is someone to blame.Writing letters in her head to imaginary friends, J delights in dwelling on the hapless Renata, who invites a kind of cruelty. This is an invitation J fully intends to take up-and like so many stepmothers before her, she will find that wickedness, once indulged, is a difficult habit to kick. A mordant black splinter of a book, Caroline Blackwoods first novel stands as proof positive of her eternal mastery-and mockery-of the darkest depths of human feeling.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"McNally Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52208209821984,"sku":"NEW1961341123","price":21.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/71Gb-TekqwL.jpg?v=1787135909","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/the-stepdaughter-mcnally-editions-1961341123","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}