With The Turn of the Key, Ruth Ware ( The Woman in Cabin 10) offers a clever and elegant update to James's story, one with less ambiguity but its own eerie potency. By the end, a child is dead, but we still don't know: Were the ghosts real, or were they in the governess's head? Over time, she becomes convinced the children are communing with the ghosts of former servants, who appear to them, at first at a distance and then ever closer, threatening to lead them to damnation. In Henry James's ambiguous, paranoid novella The Turn of the Screw (1898), a governess is left in charge of two children in an isolated Essex country house. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Turn of the Key Author Ruth Ware
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