Victorian Psycho, 9780008739591
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Victorian governess hides monstrous urges in this darkly comic thriller.
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Victorian Psycho

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  • Paperback

    208 pages

  • Release Date

    4 June 2025

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Summary

Victorian Psycho: A Governess Gone Mad

‘Jane Eyre meets American Psycho. Gloriously outrageous, sensationally unhinged’ - SUNDAY TIMES

‘Simmering with rage, propulsive and laugh-out-loud funny’ - CATRIONA WARD

‘Weird and wonderful’ - LUCY MANGAN, GUARDIAN

Winifred Notty arrives at Ensor House prepared to play the perfect Victorian governess. She’ll dutifully tutor her charges, Drusilla and Andrew, tell them bedtime stories, and only…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780008739591
ISBN-10:0008739595
Author:Virginia Feito
Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers
Imprint:Fourth Estate Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:208
Release Date:4 June 2025
Weight:220g
Dimensions:216mm x 135mm x 20mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

‘So weird and wonderful I am already adding it to my recommendations at the end of this year’ Lucy Mangan, Guardian

‘Elegant and viciously funny. Think Jane Eyre meets Patrick Bateman. Sensationally unhinged.’ Sunday Times

‘Simmering with rage, propulsive and laugh-out-loud funny, this novel is nothing less than a masterpiece’ Catriona Ward, author of The Last House on Needless Street

‘The literary lovechild of Jane Eyre and American Psycho. Murderous literary fun.’ The Times

‘I am OBSESSED. A gleeful, gory pastiche shot through with pitch-black humour.’ Kirsty Logan

‘Virginia Feito turns Victorian tropes upside down in this gloriously grotesque period horror’ Independent

‘Brutal, bold, and brilliantly macabre. A decadent delight for all lovers of the darkest Victorian gothic.’ Essie Fox

‘Riotous, devilishly clever, and deliciously appalling, Victorian Psycho is flat out brilliant. Long live Winifred! She is the anti-hero this, or any other, century deserves’ Paul Tremblay

‘Relentlessly moody in the best possible way, Victorian Psycho asks how anyone could live sanely in a time so systemically cruel. Atmospheric, funny, bloody as hell, I finished it in one sitting’ Ainslie Hogarth

‘Night-black and altogether delicious fun.’ Paraic O’Donnell

‘A wicked delight and a hilariously twisted tale, underlining the cruelty of Victorian society with a humourous deftness that is to be admired’ Emma Hinds

Praise for Mrs March:

‘A brilliantly tense psychological study from a writer who keeps pace with Du Maurier’ Guardian

‘Virginia Feito’s noirish debut novel left me rapt. An elegant, claustrophobic psychological thriller that feels incredibly original’ Evening Standard

‘There are shades of Hitchcock and Highsmith here, while the opening chapter puts one in mind of Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway. Nastily good fun’ Metro

‘I read Mrs. March in one sitting and was so captured by it. As a character, she is fascinating, complex, and deeply human’ Elisabeth Moss

About The Author

Virginia Feito

Virginia Feito was raised in Madrid and Paris, and studied English and drama at Queen Mary University of London. She worked as a copywriter until she quit to write her debut novel. She lives in Madrid.

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