Girl for services
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In a private residence in a London suburb, everything seems perfect. Behind giant gates, five luxurious mansions hide, inhabited by wealthy, prosperous, and well-behaved families with children and "service girls" hired abroad to run the household. Emmylou, a recent schoolgirl, flees here from a remote town in Brittany, taking a job as one of these workers—to look after children, clean the house, learn English, prepare for journalism, and experience life. And at first, she feels like she's arrived in paradise.
But the heavenly gardens reek of hellish brimstone. A persistent, constant fatigue, terrible dreams, ominous whispers, hushed nighttime prayers, an eldest child's illness that no one mentions... Emmylou is constantly under surveillance, cut off from the world, forbidden to leave the gates, and gradually descends into an abyss of relentless paranoia. What's going on? What do these rich and well-behaved people want? And how can she escape them?
Sidonie Bonnec, a French journalist, radio, and television presenter, debuts with a captivating psychological thriller about how the search for a better life sometimes leads innocent souls to hell, and how "disenfranchised" doesn't mean "helpless." And you know what's scariest? This story is inspired by true events.
But the heavenly gardens reek of hellish brimstone. A persistent, constant fatigue, terrible dreams, ominous whispers, hushed nighttime prayers, an eldest child's illness that no one mentions... Emmylou is constantly under surveillance, cut off from the world, forbidden to leave the gates, and gradually descends into an abyss of relentless paranoia. What's going on? What do these rich and well-behaved people want? And how can she escape them?
Sidonie Bonnec, a French journalist, radio, and television presenter, debuts with a captivating psychological thriller about how the search for a better life sometimes leads innocent souls to hell, and how "disenfranchised" doesn't mean "helpless." And you know what's scariest? This story is inspired by true events.
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