Before the sweet delight of Chocolat, before the
heady concoction that is Blackberry Wine, and before
the tart pleasures of Five Quarters of the Orange,
bestselling author Joanne Harris wrote Sleep, Pale
Sister -- a gothic tour-de-force that recalls the
powerfully dark sensibility of her novel Holy Fools.
Originally published in 1994 -- and never before
available in the United States -- Sleep, Pale Sister
is a hypnotically atmospheric story set in nineteenth
century London. When puritanical artist Henry Chester sees
delicate child beauty Effie, he makes her his favorite model
and, before long, his bride. But Henry, volatile and
repressed, is in love with an ideal. Passive, docile, and
asexual, the woman he projects onto Effie is far from the
woman she really is. And when Effie begins to discover the
murderous depths of Henry's hypocrisy, her latent passion
will rise to the surface.
Sleep, Pale Sister
combines the ethereal beauty of a Pre-Raphaelite painting
with a chilling high gothic tale and is a testament to
Harris's brimming cornucopia of talents.
This P.S.
edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the
book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and
more.
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