Bathwater drawn, her hair in disarray,
glass slipper worn, she sighs with no reproach.
Noon is her dawn, my Lady of Midday.
‘I was not born to ride the pumpkin coach.’
Catherine Eisner
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| An original pen drawing by Vogue artist Benito, commissioned by my grandfather in the 1920s, which remains in my private collection. |
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Catherine Eisner believes
passionately in plot-driven suspense fiction, a devotion to literary
craft that draws on studies in psychoanalytical criminology and
psychoactive pharmacology to explore the dark side of motivation, and
ignite plot twists with unexpected outcomes. Within these disciplines
Eisner’s fictions seek to explore variant literary forms derived from
psychotherapy and criminology to trace the traumas of characters in extremis. Compulsive
recurring sub-themes in her narratives examine sibling rivalry,
rivalrous cousinhood, pathological imposture, financial chicanery, and
the effects of non-familial male pheromones on pubescence,
see Eisner’s Sister Morphine (2008)
and Listen Close to Me (2011)
and A Bad Case (2014)
