Spoilers: Mom did it. Sex with casual stranger while her two girls are running around large house unsupervised. Worse, she screams at them to go away just before Lydia (not Kirstie) dies. Dad isn't a daughter abuser.
Mom is on medication to fight depression and she also suffers from selective amnesia. Dad, though, in a fit of anger, tells her to go to his chest of drawers and READ THE LETTER FROM THE DOCTOR THAT DESCRIBES HER SICKNESS. SHE DOES.
Mom dies out in the sucking mud (trying to escape her house) on a stormy night, while Dad rescues (or at least returns to) Kirstie. Beany the dog is okay too. Ghosts????? Dad thinks he sees mom and child on the mud/tidal area. If the mom is his wife Sarah, and Kirstie is back in the house, then who is that second child? Could it be the ghost of Lydia . . .
Kirstie snaps out of it all quickly. She regains her own personality and becomes the belle of her new school with all her lively tales.
Excellent writing throughout. Gothic classic? Maybe.
Mom is on medication to fight depression and she also suffers from selective amnesia. Dad, though, in a fit of anger, tells her to go to his chest of drawers and READ THE LETTER FROM THE DOCTOR THAT DESCRIBES HER SICKNESS. SHE DOES.
Mom dies out in the sucking mud (trying to escape her house) on a stormy night, while Dad rescues (or at least returns to) Kirstie. Beany the dog is okay too. Ghosts????? Dad thinks he sees mom and child on the mud/tidal area. If the mom is his wife Sarah, and Kirstie is back in the house, then who is that second child? Could it be the ghost of Lydia . . .
Kirstie snaps out of it all quickly. She regains her own personality and becomes the belle of her new school with all her lively tales.
Excellent writing throughout. Gothic classic? Maybe.
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