They are horrified when the woman predicts the child is neither male nor female, although Vera calmly states that it is fitting that a new “freak” would join the family. Allismore, a psychic, to come and predict the baby’s sex.
Meanwhile, Lucietta, is pregnant yet again. Although she fears the woods, Audrina is willing to brave them to see Billie and Arden, and gradually Damian consents to Audrina’s visits.
Billie and Arden have moved into the groundkeeper’s cottage in the woods where the First Audrina died. When she is eight, Audrina meets Arden Lowe and his mother Billie, a former ice skater who is now an amputee. proves early on that she will stop at nothing to take anything that Audrina loves. Vera, a habitual liar and borderline nymphomaniac. Vera claims that Audrina stole her place in Damian’s affection and that the “second and worst” Audrina will never be as special or wonderful as the First and Best Audrina. Damian tells her stories about his “first and best Audrina” and convinces the younger Audrina that, by a process of self-hypnosis (which includes going into the First Audrina’s old bedroom and rocking in her rocking chair), she can gain all of the First Audrina’s memories and become just as beloved and special as her dead sister, which is what Audrina wants more than anything else in the world.Īudrina lives in virtual isolation, her only real contact with the outside world being her older cousin, Vera, who despises Audrina.
Nine years before Audrina was born, her elder sister-who coincidentally was also named Audrina and was also born on September the ninth-was raped and murdered in the woods on what would have been her ninth birthday. Audrina’s father, however, is convinced that Audrina “walks in her own time space”. The family takes special care to keep Audrina unaware of precise dates, including that of her own birthday-although Audrina knows she was born on the ninth of September, she is frequently confused about the exact passage of time, leading Vera to mock her for being insane. Audrina lives at Whitefern, a Victorian Era mansion, with her father Damian, mother Lucietta, her aunt Ellsbeth and her cousin Vera. Cover Synopsis EditĪudrina Adare claims she is seven years old when the novel opens, although it is later revealed that Audrina’s memory is unreliable.
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