Lucie Babbidge's House

Lucie, neglected by her family, creates an elaborate imaginary world in a dollhouse, but as the real and imagined blur together, Lucie's grip on reality becomes increasingly tenuous. A psychologically complex and unsettling novel about a child's retreat from an unbearable world.

Content Ratings

No Romance

There is no romantic content; Lucie's relationships are with her imagined family in the dollhouse.

Intense Themes

Lucie is profoundly neglected and emotionally abused by her family; her retreat into the dollhouse world becomes increasingly complete and suggests a dissociative break from reality; themes of neglect, psychological escape, and the question of sanity are emotionally disturbing and handled with literary seriousness.

Mild Violence

There is no significant physical violence; the horror is psychological and stems from Lucie's deteriorating mental state.