In a vicious, delicious contemporary novel inspired by Shakespeare\'s Richard III, the lauded author of The Family Fortuna lifts the curtain on a high school thespian who\'ll stop at nothing to land the lead.
A diabolically good read, it forces our complicity as we wince and cheer for an arresting drama queen who just can\'t help going full-tilt nasty in the pursuit of her dreams..
Surely there will be redemption? Surely our dread and patience will be rewarded? Intricately plotted with an ingenious narrative that blends multiple viewpoints with script excerpts and an original musical score, Lindsay Eagar\'s whip-smart, precision-crafted, and gleefully compulsive page-turner taps into the dark side of high school theater production.
Rory is an underdog, after all, a scholarship kid teased for her weight.
Perhaps it\'s because we don\'t want to believe that she\'s as relentless as she claims.
And we do.
Like Shakespeare\'s Richard III, she confides in her audience, telling us exactly the lengths she\'ll go to to secure the leading role in Bosworth Academy\'s senior musical, confessing without shame that she is charming and conniving and brutally ambitious, that we will watch and root for her even as she manipulates and endangers those around her.
Rory is an antihero for the ages.
In a vicious, delicious contemporary novel inspired by Shakespeare\'s Richard III, the lauded author of The Family Fortuna lifts the curtain on a high school thespian who\'ll stop at nothing to land the lead
