Waiting for Bluebeard

Download or read book Waiting for Bluebeard written by Helen Ivory and published by Bloodaxe Books Limited. This book was released on 2013 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Waiting for Bluebeard tries to understand how a girl could grow up to be the woman living in Bluebeard's house. The story begins with a part-remembered, part-imagined childhood, where seances are held, and a father drowns in oil beneath the skeleton of his car. When her childhood home coughs up birds in the parlour, the girl enters Bluebeard's house paying the tariff of a single layer of skin. This is only the first stage of her disappearing, as she searches for a phantom child in a house where Bluebeard haunts the corridors like a sobbing wolf. Waiting for Bluebeard is Helen Ivory's fourth book of poems.