My favourite fictional character: Maggie O'Farrell's rebel Esme Lennox refuses to be the 'perfect victim' – even in an asylum

Maggie O'Farrell’s homage to The Yellow Wallpaper inhabits a ‘difficult’ young woman who survives tragedy in colonial India and is incarcerated by her family for refusing gender and social norms.

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