![]() “In Mina’s Child, Paul Butler takes a fresh look at the familiar story of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, pulling the characters into the twentieth century and re-examining the tale under the critical gaze of a new generation. Leslie Vryenhoek, author of We All Will Be Received A compelling look at how false stories become our own undoing-and just a fantastic read.” “Paul Butler has turned the Dracula myth inside out, exposing the convenient lies of foreign evil and women’s demonic sexuality. Jenny, suddenly unleashed as a destructive force against the household, decides to make the Harkers face their hypocrisy. She is carrying Jonathan’s child, but Harker plans to evade all such responsibilities. The Harkers’ maid, Jenny, it transpires, has reasons of her own to worry about the chaos in her employer’s household. Abree suspects her parents’ tales of glory hide a profound sense of guilt, particularly about the unexplained death of their friend, Lucy Westenra. Having lost her brother, Quincey, in the Great War, Abree refuses to believe in a clear dividing line between good and evil. ![]() ![]() ![]() As the Harkers follow the thread of their unease back to its source, they are haunted by memories of Lucy Westenra, fiancée to Arthur Holmwood, and the manner of Lucy’s death. Middle-aged Jonathan Harker is haunted by nightmares that Abree assumes to be about her brother, Quincey, killed in the Great War. In 1921, Mina and Jonathan Harker’s daughter, Abree, a student at King’s College, London, starts to question the extraordinary adventures her parents claim to have experienced in England and the Carpathians. Mina’s Child imagines a second generation springing from the “heroes”‘ in Bram Stoker’s Dracula. ![]()
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