The narrator examines every detail of every interaction, to the point of obsession. When a new student arrives, Ernessa, the narrator is instantly jealous of the relationship that forms between Lucy and the newcomer. She attends an all-girls boarding school, and is looking forward to the new year with her best friend Lucy. The Moth Diaries is presented in the form of a young girl’s diary during the year that she is age sixteen. As fear spreads through the school, fantasy and reality mingle into a waking nightmare of gothic menace, fuelled by the lusts and fears of adolescence.Īnd at the centre of the diary is the question that haunts all who read it: Is Ernessa really a vampire? Or is the narrator trapped in her own fevered imagination? Around her swirl dark secrets and a series of ominous disasters. Ernessa is a mysterious presence with pale skin and hypnotic eyes. The object of her obsession is her room-mate, Lucy Blake, and Lucy’s friendship with their new and disturbing classmate. At an exclusive girls’ boarding school, a sixteen-year-old girl records her most intimate thoughts in a diary.
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