Feb 11 2025 79 mins 51
Time to misbehave.
Virginia Feito’s new novel, Victorian Psycho, is all about good behaviour, positive standards and polite conduct…and what happens when you flout all that, by – I dunno – slaughtering a houseload of people.
It’s a much buzzed about book that takes the psychopathy of American Psycho back to the straightlaced, be-corseted world of the 19th Century, then let’s rip. We talk about glorious violence, the humour of extremity, Charles Dickens and Bret Easton Ellis…and have a deeply amusing conversation about infanticide.
Queen Victorian would be appalled.
Enjoy!
Other books mentioned:
Mrs March (2021), by Virginia Feito
American Psycho (1991), by Bret Easton Ellis
A Christmas Carol (1843), by Charles Dickens
Nightmare Abbey (1818), by Thomas Peacock
The Secret Garden (1911), by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Lamb (2025), by Lucy Rose
Come Closer (2003), by Sara Gran
The Fate of Mary Rose (1981), by Caroline Blackwood
David Copperfield (1850), by Charles Dickens
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