This is a short French novella, and I really feel like I have read a LOT of these this year, from 1992. It’s a kind of fable, kind of parable, about a group of three governesses working for a young well-off Parisian family. The way in which this novel is primarily told is through an act of voyeurism. We are constantly being shown what is happening and we are treated as witnesses to those events. So there’s often an image or a sight to take […]