PLAYLIST
Missed Me – The Dresden Dolls
Big Jet Plane – Angus & Julia Stone
Writer In The Dark – Lorde
Leif Erikson – Interpol
Lolita – Lana Del Rey
I Will Possess Your Heart – Death Cab for Cutie
Beautiful and Bad – Nicole Dollanganger
Bloody Bandaid – Cherry Glazerr
My Body Is a Cage – Arcade Fire
Churchyard – AURORA
Let's Dance – David Bowie
White Rabbit – Jefferson Airplane
Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon – Urge Overkill
In the Backseat – Arcade Fire
Happy Healthy Citizen of the Developed World Blues – Ball Park Music
Blindness – Metric
Together – The xx
So that's the novel guys & I hoped you enjoyed it!!
This book had been the strangest concept that didn't leave my head the moment I started imagining it. I normally write about young adults so I wanted to try a coming-of-age thing.
Lydia is sort of based on myself when I was her age. Unsure, inexperienced, misunderstood, I guess? I've never gone through some of the horrible things she had gone through, but there are small elements of this story that are inspired by truth. This is not an autobiography but she is the closest character that will ever be a former version of myself.
You could say the themes of this novel display values very different from our modern ones. I think it's important to consider the 60s really was a different time. It wasn't that unusual for grown men to date teenage girls (still ew). Women lived with their parents right up until they got married, and they married young. Of course the era doesn't excuse the fucked up things that happened, but it would be terribly dishonest to pretend that issues such a systematic racism, abuse of power, etc. did not exist.
I've added a playlist on Spotify and here's the link if you want to check it out – https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6MvjQI3fqw3qSXsHDjr2F1?si=BmTZI4kzTX2ds23p0BxHQg
It's a bunch of songs that capture the melancholy and vintage vibe this novel tries to inspire, and some fun ones too xx
I also write other things - I have another novel-in-progress similar to this one called Dark Summers.
I also have 2 completed works (Addison & The Planetarium), 2 poetry collections (Rotten Poetry & Stinging Nettles), a historical/thriller/romance that's under severe reconstruction (A Cult of Archeology) a horror (Violent Laughter Echoed Around My Grave) and a science fiction (Hunger of the Void).
Thank you so much for reading –
love you all x
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The Dollhouse
Teen Fiction[COMPLETED] ❝Image is everything.❞ Set in the 1960s, The Dollhouse is the haunting story of Lydia and Violet - forced to uproot to a new town and live with an old-fashioned family they barely know. The sisters soon discover that image can be deceivi...
