"Originally published in hardcover by Little, Brown and Company in 2017"--Title page verso. "First published in France by Éditions Stock as Derrière la grille, 2014"--Title page verso.
Summary:
"Maude Julien's fanatical parents believed it was their sacred duty to turn her into the ultimate survivor--raising her in isolation and subjecting her to endless drills designed to "eliminate weakness." Maude learned to hold an electric fence for minutes without flinching and to sit perfectly still in a rat-infested cellar all night long. But Maude's parents could not rule her inner life. Befriending the animals on the lonely estate as well as the characters in the novels she read in secret, young Maude nurtured in herself the compassion and love that her parents forbade as weak. And when, after more than a decade, an outsider managed to penetrate her family's paranoid world, Maude seized her opportunity to break free." -back cover
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