![]() ![]() Incredibly, it was made into a movie, starring some notable actors, including Kate Winslet. It is a novel that gives the harsh truths about living in a small country town, the ones not mentioned in the treechange pamphlets and instagram accounts. Somehow, it touched a nerve in its readers, and moments of true insight and lived experience broke through all the gothic nonsense to elevate it to the status of a stinging critique of the lengths small-minded people will go to in order to make themselves seem important. It featured a cast of gothic-normal characters with placeholder names lines "Una Pleasance", who was unpleasant, "Evan Pettyman", who was a petty man, "Beula Harridene", who was a harriden. Many, many years ago, at the turn of the century, Rosalie Ham wrote a gothic novel as part of her creative writing course at RMIT, right here in Melbourne. ![]()
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