Heather Parry's novel, Carrion Crow, sets itself in a grotesque late Victorian London, weaving body horror into a tale of female entrapment. Marguerite Perigord, the daughter of a financially struggling French noblewoman, is imprisoned by her controlling mother, Cecile, as a means of preparing her for an arranged marriage with Mr. Lewis. Drawing parallels to feminist literature, the story critiques the societal expectations of women in the 19th century through the oppressive maternal figure and highlights the radical influence of domestic guides, leading Marguerite toward subversion.
The body undergoing the horrors belongs, in this instance, to Marguerite Perigord, the daughter of a French noblewoman in reduced circumstances.
Cecile shuts her daughter in with a copy of one of Mrs Beeton's guides, and Marguerite, having little else to occupy her, is soon reciting entire passages from memory.
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