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Laura Purcell:
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(view spoiler)[Hello, I would like to start off by saying I really enjoyed "The Corset". But I don't think I truly understood the ending. I thought that Dotty left Ruths parcel on Mrs Pearce doorstep instead of Billy's so her dad would pick it up, but I'm not sure if that is true. Also at the end Dotty says she can finally embrace her murderous destiny. Does that mean she's killed before? Did she kill her mum? Thank you in advance (hide spoiler)]
Laura Purcell
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(view spoiler)[So glad to hear you enjoyed it! Please find below my answer to a similar question on one of the community threads. Re: the murderous destiny, Dorothea read the lumps in her own skull suggesting that she would prove to be a killer, but she did not kill her mum - that was Mr Truelove.
"Note how Dorothea makes Ruth think about hanging while she is sewing her initial on the handkerchief. Then in the last chapter she explicitly does not leave the house ... She makes us think she has gone to Billy Rooker's, but in fact left the handkerchief outside her father's library door. So Ruth DID have the power all along ... and Dorothea has used it to get rid of the problem in her life, thereby fulfilling the fate suggested by the 'murderous' lumps she found in her own skull. " (hide spoiler)]
"Note how Dorothea makes Ruth think about hanging while she is sewing her initial on the handkerchief. Then in the last chapter she explicitly does not leave the house ... She makes us think she has gone to Billy Rooker's, but in fact left the handkerchief outside her father's library door. So Ruth DID have the power all along ... and Dorothea has used it to get rid of the problem in her life, thereby fulfilling the fate suggested by the 'murderous' lumps she found in her own skull. " (hide spoiler)]
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Laura Purcell:
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Hi Laura. I recently read your book The Silent Companions at my book club. Funnily enough I had a very different perception of Jolyon's relationship to Elsie. Maybe I read too much into it but I thought through the various hints and suggestions that Elsie was his mother...her father's abuse, the constant need to protect him, calling him 'her boy', 'she bled for him'. Is this something you can confirm?
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