Her doctor observes to himself after hearing a conversation between Melanie and her husband, Guy:īut Melanie isn’t the fool he thinks her, not by a long chalk, she’s simply the purely feminine creature who makes herself into anything her man wants her to be. She is indulged by her husband and although she affects a silly, giggly manner she is not stupid. Melanie is a spoilt, pampered young woman, who is recovering from tuberculosis and the birth of a baby. No one believes that she is anyone other than Millie, a very sick young woman. It’s about Melanie, a young woman who falls asleep on a Victorian chaise-longue in 1953 and wakes up in a different body, that of Millie, in 1864.
After I finished reading Little Boy Lost by Marghanita Laski I wanted to read more by her and borrowed The Victorian Chaise-Longue from my local library. It’s very different from Little Boy Lost and although it’s described as ‘a little jewel of horror’, I didn’t find it very horrifying, or even the slightest bit frightening.
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