With The Turn of the Key, Ruth Ware ( The Woman in Cabin 10) offers a clever and elegant update to James's story, one with less ambiguity but its own eerie potency. By the end, a child is dead, but we still don't know: Were the ghosts real, or were they in the governess's head? Over time, she becomes convinced the children are communing with the ghosts of former servants, who appear to them, at first at a distance and then ever closer, threatening to lead them to damnation. In Henry James's ambiguous, paranoid novella The Turn of the Screw (1898), a governess is left in charge of two children in an isolated Essex country house. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. She apologizes for crying and leaving tear stains on the letter, but she tells Mr.Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Turn of the Key Author Ruth Ware She explains that he would not let her speak, nor would he listen to her, making her look “much more guilty” (7) in the process. Gates, is supposed to choose the trial advocate, she does not trust him and blames him for her current situation. Although she knows her appointed solicitor, Mr. Her main purpose in writing the letter is to ask Mr. She explains that she’s awaiting trial in Scotland and insists that she’s innocent. Wrexham might ignore her if he knows who she is. Wrexham, that she prefers not to give away her identity because she’s been in the papers for a high-profile murder in which her guilt has been presumed. In the first, Rowan explains to the letter recipient, Mr. The first letter is dated September 7, 2017, and comes after five attempts to write the letter over the four preceding days. Each chapter is part of a long letter written in the first-person by the main character Rowan Caine-whose name is not revealed until Chapter 4.
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