5/22/2023 0 Comments Forbidden tabitha suzuma book![]() ![]() But I think that the material must be handled by a skillful writer because it’s certainly a fine line to walk between compelling and believable, and just uncomfortable ickiness. You might well ask how books that tackle this subject could possibly be made palatable, and yet they can be. Meg Rosoff’s masterful How I Live Now is about cousins who fall in love. ![]() Several of my all-time favourite books including Relations by Carolyn Slaughter (which predates this blog), A Spell of Winter by Helen Dunmore and Billy Dead by Lisa Reardon are about incestuous sibling relationships. In the characters, not in the subject matter because while incest is certainly taboo, there is something strangely riveting about relationships that are not meant to be. I flew through the book and its sequels and prequels, until I lost interest. ![]() Flowers in the Attic was published in 1979, which is the year I graduated from high school. If you’re a reader of a certain age, you’ll remember the moment you read that attic scene where brother and sister Cathy and Chris do what no brother and sister should ever do. ![]()
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