THE NEW MOTHER by Lucy Clifford

“The baby’s high chair stood in one corner, and in another there was a cupboard, in which the mother kept all manner of surprises.”

This is a cautionary tale to end all cautionary tales… for two little girls called Blue-Eyes and Turkey who try to be naughty but not fully succeeding to be naughty enough to see the man and woman dance on a strange adolescent girl’s peardrum. The new mother comes to replace their real loving mother in punishment for their near-naughtiness and is something or someone that will ever haunt my nightmares! Utterly deadpan and disarmingly off-the-wall. Unmissable.

From my review here: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2023/02/23/the-new-mother-and-other-stories-by-lucy-lane-clifford/#comment-26623

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