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by Rachel Klein (Author) "My mother dropped me off at two ..." (more)
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  • Hardcover: 260 pages
  • Publisher: Faber and Faber; New edition edition (22 Jan 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0571219705
  • ISBN-13: 978-0571219704
  • Product Dimensions: 20 x 13 x 3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 365,427 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Haunted by the death of her poet father, and coming to terms with the usual trials and tribulations of adolescence, the narrator of Klein's first novel is a boarder in an all-girls school in the 1960s. Less than usual are the series of events that unfold in her diary: the arrival of a new girl, Ernessa, who seems to have stepped out of a Gothic novel; the death in mysterious circumstances of two of the narrator's friends. Are the events connected? The narrator thinks so, eventually believing that Ernessa is a vampire. Klein cleverly leaves the reader in the dark as to what has really taken place, while convincingly portraying the hothouse atmosphere of the school and the voice of the narrator - a voice which combines precocious literary detachment with Gothically inspired imagination. A debut with promisingly subtle depths beneath its entertaining surface.


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This novel tells the story of odd goings-on in a girls' boarding school in the late 1960s. The unnamed narrator, a student at the school, is intellectual, somewhat aloof and associates with a intense clique of girls. When Dora is found dead one night, a tragic accident is initially suspected.
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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A book to haunt me in years to come!, 23 Jul 2004
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This book had me completely absorbed. It's rare for a book to linger on in my mind days after reading it. I still can't decide whether the narrator's experiences and feelings were real, or a product of her imagination.

Was Ernessa really a vampire who is sucking the life out of her friend Lucy? Perhaps Lucy distintegrates because of anorexia & possible abuse from her repulsive father? Maybe the author was simply projecting her negative feelings of grief & jealously onto Ernessa and making her out to be something gross and unnatural. However, weird going-ons, untimely deaths, & the dark gothic atsmosphere of the boarding school suggest that the narrator's experiences are very real.

Well-written and very compulsive, the book finishes off with more questions than answers.

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars THE MOTH DIARIES, 13 Feb 2004
Its hard to say you could enjoy this book but it did make a compelling and fascinating read. Don't read this book if you want easy answers as this book is not about that - its the questions and possibilities that stay with you for a long time after reading it. Its extremely well written and gets under your skin and I did find it fascinating and enjoyable, even if I craved a clear answer at the end. You really do feel like you are reading someone else's diary and it throws up so many things that happen during adolescence while avoiding all the usual clichés. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who wants something different to read.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Buffy The Metaphor Slayer, 31 Aug 2005
By J. J. O'neill "rotgut" (Warrington UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Moth Diaries (Paperback)
This pyschological thriller, despite its packaging, seems to me to be a long way from being a Gothic vampire story. It reads more like a modern take on the classic American short story "The Yellow Wallpaper" where the reader witnesses the mental disintegration of the female narrator from her own journal.

In fairness to the author, the prosaic forward removes all realistic chance of reading this book as a genuine ghost story, although I suppose the epilogue could be seen as being slightly ambiguous.

The interesting point raised in the narrative, is if the narrator has been "cured" of her madness...certainly this point, much more than imagined monsters, is left very much open.

Moths occur at several key times in the story, never fatally being drawn to flames, I am glad to say, this, a too obvious image for the brilliant "A" student obsessing over books, school, teachers, father, friends, is never used. Most tellingly, the narrator describes fruitless nights searching with her father for a beautiful moth they saw when she was younger.

As much as being about going mad, the book is about growing up, both themes are much more horrific than a castle full of vampires.

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