Set against a post #MeToo landscape, Rachel Kapelke-Dale's The Ingenue delves into mother-daughter relationships, the expectations of talent, the stories we tell ourselves, and what happens when the things that once made you special are taken from you.
Kapelke-Dale’s...absorbing novel delves into the repercussions of sexual abuse, interspersing tantalizing extracts from Evie’s feminist fairy-tale retellings and fragments of Saskia’s teen years with present events that crescendo to a stunning conclusion.
Shocking ending ... Kapelke-Dale (The Ballerinas) crafts a twisted suspenseful tale of expectations and identity, of love and vengeance, that will leave readers breathless.
The plot builds to a conclusion that’s inevitable but still surprising, exhilarating but also disturbing ... Will resonate with readers in the post-#MeToo era. This suspense-filled tale of revenge and redemption is hard to put down.