We are thrilled that Jessie Elland is coming to Juno to talk with Molly Aitken about her fabulous femgore debut, The Ladie Upstairs.
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Are you brave enough to enter Ropner Hall?
Scullery drudge Ann longs to become a lady's maid. Ann can't quite remember how or when she arrived at the grand Ropner Hall, but she loathes spending her days toiling in the dank kitchen.
When a chance meeting with Ropner's Lady Charlotte leads to the opportunity to become her personal maid, Ann is convinced she has finally escaped her own version of hell. But has she? As Ann's new life above stairs takes a sinister twist, will it turn out that the terrors lurking there are worse than the devils she knows below? A bold new voice in femgore, Jessie Elland’s deeply visceral debut is a dark and twisted tale of ambition and desire. Perfect for fans of Mariana Enriquez, Angela Carter and The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
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Jessie Elland is an actress and author from the North East of England. An avid bookworm from the moment she
could read, Jessie spent most of her childhood dreaming of writing books and scribbling down half-finished stories. The Ladie Upstairs is her first novel.
Molly Aitken's short fiction has appeared in Ploughshares, for which she won the Alice Hoffman Prize for Fiction 2023. Her first novel The Island Child was longlisted for the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award, and her second, Bright I Burn, was published in 2024. Molly is currently studying for a PhD in Creative Writing and History at Sheffield Hallam University.