The Secrets of Lizzie Borden
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In her enthralling richly imagined new novel Brandy Purdy author of The Rippers Wife creates a compelling portrait of the real complex woman behind an unthinkable crime. Lizzie Borden should be one of the most fortunate young women in Fall River Massachusetts. Her wealthy father could easily afford to provide his daughters with fashionable clothes travel and a rich cultured life. Instead haunted by the ghost of childhood poverty he forces Lizzie and her sister Emma to live frugally denying them the simplest modern conveniences. Suitors and socializing are discouraged as her father views all gentleman callers as fortune hunters. Lonely and deeply unhappy Lizzie stifles her frustration dreaming of the freedom that will come with her eventual inheritance. But soon even that chance of future independence seems about to be ripped away. And on a stifling August day in 1892 Lizzies long-simmering anger finally explodes Vividly written and thought-provoking The Secrets of Lizzie Borden explores the fascinating events behind a crime that continues to grip the public imaginationa story of how thwarted desires and desperate rage could turn a dutiful daughter into a notorious killer.
