![]() She’s not exactly a sympathetic character, this unrepentant axe-murderer, but it’s possible to understand how she could snap. Dreading a future of spinsterhood and penury, Lizzie is desperate for love and yearns for material indulgence. Lizzie suffered a stifling childhood with a miserly father, a manipulative older sister, a stepmother with whom she cannot form a bond, and a painful inability to fit in with her peers. But why? In this engrossing, imaginative novel, Purdy allows Lizzie Borden to tell her own story. This lonely, unhappy young woman was almost certainly guilty of killing her father and stepmother. Lizzie Borden took an axe, Gave her mother forty whacks… Surely everyone (of my generation at least) can finish this gruesome rhyme. Lizzie Borden remains morbidly fascinating more than a hundred years after she played a central role in the chilling crime. In the summer of 1892, in a small Massachusetts city, a double murder was committed. ![]()
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