The Turn Of The Screw

I picked up this book because I had just finished watching the excellent The Haunting of Bly Manor on Netflix and thought it would be interested to compare that story to it's source material. I found the audiobook, narrated by Emma Thompson, and let's be honest - she got me through.

The Turn of the Screw turns out to be one of my least favorite of the Victorian era tropes, which is “are all these creepy things really happening, or is the lady just GOING CRAZY because she's a lady...” It also does that thing where the entire climax of the novel happens on the last 5 pages, and then BOOP we're done. What?? What just happened??

Turns out we've gotten better at telling stories over the last 150 years, so good for us. (Also, if my kids ever have to read this for school I will definitely be giving them the Emma Thompson version.)