Watching the roses
by Adèle Geras
After being raped at her eighteenth birthday party, an English girl, whose life resembles a modern version of the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale, withdraws into a trance-like state confiding only to her diary her thoughts about her unusual family and the events that led to her trauma.
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