![]() ![]() Lauren, driven by her instincts, does battle with the fairy world-but she’s on her own, and when she becomes convinced that one or both of her babies has been taken as changelings, all bets are off. Even police detective Joanna Harper, who begins following Lauren after she reports the “intruder,” can’t understand why the new mother’s behavior is so unpredictable. And, the woman says, she is owed.įrom that moment, Lauren loses her grip on reality. The stranger offers to trade one of her twins, hidden in “rags, a nest of grey swaddling,” for one of Lauren’s. ![]() One night, an apparition visits Lauren: a filthy woman with a black tongue who smells like a cold riverbank. The nights are the hardest, and she’s not alone. Her husband leaves her by herself in the hospital with the twins, where she struggles to breastfeed and care for the babies. She delivers two healthy twins after an unbelievably hard labor. ![]() ![]() This new psychological thriller is a modern reimagining of a changeling story, with consequences that touch both the magical world and our own.īirth is a nightmare, but Lauren Tranter’s is a true horror. Sinister and sickeningly real, Little Darlings is fairy tale-inflected horror that explores postpartum depression. ![]()
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