How did you come up with the Dalloway School and the Dalloway Five, and build Felicity’s world? It’s so atmospheric and spooky I really felt as though I were living in Godwin House at Dalloway School.
The world-building in A Lesson in Vengeance is incredible. It made sense to me that as an avid reader, and as someone experiencing trauma and grief alongside mental illness, Felicity would try to shape her own story to match a narrative that was more appealing than the truth. I also think it’s easy in the context of trauma to construct new narratives that are more palatable for us than reality, especially for those of us who are, let’s say, um, especially keen on literary hobbies. Why did you choose to have an unreliable narrator and how did you craft the distinct versions of Felicity-the person she wants to be and the things she wished happened, and who she really is, and what really happened?Īs someone who has struggled with psychotic depression, as Felicity does in the book, it was important to me to try to create an atmosphere where the reader could share at least a small part of the self-doubt and confusion, and self-gaslighting that can occur in the context of severe mental illness. I loved that throughout the story, I could never quite tell if she was being honest with herself or with the other people in her life.
Today we’re pleased to welcome Victoria Lee to the WNDB blog to discuss A Lesson in Vengeance.įelicity is an unreliable narrator.
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