She can lounge on the sofa, daydreaming, stuffing herself with cakes and biscuits and watching romantic films on TV non-stop. By ignoring the horrors below she might pretend that nothing sinister is happening. She is not entirely stupid, yet she has convinced herself to keep herself to herself and ignore her brother's secret activities in the cellar. Marion lives a life of an amoeba, or even a parasite, who eats, sleeps and daydreams. Everyone including her nearest neighbour takes advantage of her. She has been cruelly taunted and bullied at school (the narrative shifts from the present to past, and back to the present). She sleeps surrounded by her teddies, and on the surface of it, has been victimised by her overbearing family. Marion Zetland is a shy spinster in her fifties, who lives with her older brother. The Visitors by Catherine Burns (Legend Press) is a creepy, disturbing and upsetting Gothic tale of our times.
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