· Molly Pohlig’s debut novel The Unsuitable stands as a direct refutation. Set contemporaneously to Austen, the novel tells the story of Iseult Wince, a twenty-eight year old woman whose father wants to marry her off and be rid of her. Iseult doesn’t want to be www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 4 mins. · Molly Pohlig's The Unsuitable is a fierce blend of Gothic ghost story and Victorian novel of manners that’s also pitch perfect for our current cultural moment. Iseult Wince is a Victorian woman perilously close to spinsterhood whose distinctly unpleasant father is trying to marry her off. She is awkward, plain, and most pertinently, believes that her mother, who died in childbirth, lives in the scar Brand: Holt, Henry Company, Inc. Iseult Wince, the heroine of Molly Pohlig’s Victorian-era psychological novel The Unsuitable is a “drab and faded” woman on the verge of spinsterhood and is haunted by her mother, Beatrice, who died in childbirth. Now, Beatrice has burrowed herself deep into a scar on Iseult’s collarbone, left when “she was born and killed her mother.”/5.
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If the repulsive can strive to be resplendent, then Molly Pohlig’s debut novel, The Unsuitable, a gothic horror story full of shudder-inducing grotesqueness, achieves such a paradox—perhaps a. Date. Ap. Fiction. Horror. Literary. In Victorian England, unmarried year-old Iseult believes that she murdered her mother during childbirth, and now the woman's ghost resides in the scar on her neck and haunts Iseult. Molly Pohlig's The Unsuitable is a fierce blend of Gothic ghost story and Victorian novel of manners that’s also pitch perfect for our current cultural moment. Iseult Wince is a Victorian woman perilously close to spinsterhood whose distinctly unpleasant father is trying to marry her off.
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