Plain Bad Heroines

‘Brimming from start to finish with sly humour and gothic mischief…a brilliant piece of exuberant storytelling’ - Sarah Waters

The UK virtual book launch for Plain Bad Heroines with emily m danforth, whose debut The Miseducation of Cameron Post was adapted for the big screen, in conversation with Kate Davies, screenwriter and author of In at the Deep End.

'It’s a terrible story and one way to tell it is this: two girls in love and a fog of wasps cursed the place forever after…’

1902, Brookhants School for Girls: students Flo and Clara are madly in love with each other, as well as completely obsessed with The Story of Mary MacLane, the scandalous debut memoir by 19-year-old MacLane. A few months later they are found dead in the woods, after a horrific wasp attack, the book lying next to their intertwined bodies. Within five years the school is closed. But not before three more people die on the property, each in a troubling way.

Over a hundred years later, Brookhants opens its doors once more, when a crew of young actresses arrive to film a high-profile movie about the rumoured Brookhants curse. And as past and present become grimly entangled, it’s soon impossible to tell quite where the curse leaves off and Hollywood begins…

For fans of Sarah Waters, Curtis Sittenfeld and Shirley Jackson, Plain Bad Heroines is by turns sharply witty and deeply unsettling: a modern gothic novel that is utterly immersive and hugely compelling.

Register for the FREE event now here on Eventbrite and in the run up to event day, March 11th, we'll email you the RingCentral link. Book + ticket option available (includes free shipping). This webinar will be broadcast using RingCentral.

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Reviews for Plain Bad Heroines:

‘Atmospheric, sexy, creepy, full of lesbians and wasps, disturbing and funny and totally addictive’ - Kate Davies, author of In At The Deep End

‘Buzzing with wickedness…sly, wry and dangerous to know’ - Rosie Garland, What Girls Do in the Dark

‘A hot amalgamation of gothic horror and Hollywood satire, it’s draped with depth but bursting with life’ - Washington Post

‘A deviously delicious cake’ - O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE

A FREE book launch event following the UK publication of Plain Bad Heroines, Thursday March 11th, 7pm. We kindly ask only book if you fully intend to attend.