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Del Rey

9780593724958

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At the Bottom of the Garden

Camilla Bruce’s cathartic At the Bottom of the Garden uses the trappings of gothic horror to wrestle with the meaning of death.

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Review of ‘At the Bottom of the Garden’

Grief is a complicated thing. Sometimes it manifests as denial, anger or even a kind of numbness. But for young Violet Webb, who can see ghosts, death isn’t cause for grief, even after her parents die climbing the deadliest mountain in the world. So when Violet and her older sister, Lily (who, full of adolescent…

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