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The woman in the wallpaper / Lora Jones

Jones, Lora, (author.).

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The lives of three women dramatically collide during the French Revolution: Sofi, a wallpaper factory worker; her sister Lara, a lady's maid; and a young aristocrat, Hortense. At the factory, the sisters notice something eerie about the intricately illustrated wallpaper: the same mysterious woman appears again and again. But what does it portend? After the death of their beloved father, sisters Sofi and Lara are forced to leave their family home in Marseilles and move to a small village on the outskirts of Paris, where they have been offered work at a factory renowned for its intricately illustrated wallpaper known as Toile de Jouy. But when Sofi and Lara arrive at the factory, owned by a wealthy businessman named Wilhelm Oberst, they notice something unsettling about the wallpaper's pattern. At the heart of its seemingly idyllic vignettes, the same woman appears again and again: Madame Justine, Oberst's former wife-who, they discover, met an untimely and mysterious death years before, and who bears more than a passing resemblance to Lara. At the factory, Lara attracts the attention of the factory owner's son, Josef. But there is something uncannily familiar about their interactions, and Lara soon realizes that her life is mirroring the scenes illustrated on the wallpaper that lines her bedchamber. As the strange occurrences surrounding the wallpaper become ever more unnerving, Lara is gripped by paranoia. Is history is repeating itself and, if so, will she share the same tragic fate as the woman in the wallpaper? -- Publisher

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  • ISBN: 1454956003
  • ISBN: 9781454956006
  • Physical Description: 472 pages ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Union Square & Co., 2025.
Subject: Historical fiction.
Sisters > Fiction.
Working class > Fiction.
Wallpaper > Reproduction > Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
French Revolution > Fiction.
France > History > Revolution, 1789-1799 > Fiction.
France > Civilization > 18th century > Fiction.
France > Economic conditions > 18th century > Fiction.
France > Social conditions > 18th century > Fiction.

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