![]() ![]() ![]() She’s like the innocent-looking child in a Gothic novel who feigns ignorance even as the new governess finds her favorite dress hacked to bits and a decapitated doll left in her bed. She’s an agent of destabilization and derangement. In the movie, Eve’s endgame is straightforward - steal her idol’s man and take her job - but here Gilly has a more insidious agenda. Like everything she says, it’s not quite what it seems. “I knew it was you!” she exclaims when she runs into the book’s heroine, Frankie, on a Venice street. Gilly, the young woman who emerges as the villain of sorts in Christine Mangan’s “Palace of the Drowned,” materializes from nowhere like Eve Harrington in “ All About Eve,” all bashful smiles and disingenuous sycophancy. ![]() PALACE OF THE DROWNED By Christine Mangan ![]()
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