Lizzie reminds Bridget of her mentally disabled sister, Cara, for whose condition she feels responsible. Bridget’s fiance, Liam, wants her to quit, but she’s reluctant to leave a well-paid job. Bridget’s grateful for her friendship and help with chores, but she finds Lizzie’s sleepwalking, spying, and screaming matches with her father deeply upsetting. Lizzie, lonely, unstable, and combative, has attached herself to Bridget, following her when she leaves the house. Interest in Lizzie Borden, tried and acquitted in the brutal 1892 murder of her father and stepmother, has never flagged this fictional retelling depicts the unsolved crime from the perspective of the family’s live-in, Irish-immigrant maid, Bridget Sullivan.Īndrew Borden rules his household through tightfisted micromanagement and intimidation his second wife, Abigail, passive and reclusive, communicates via written lists Emma, Lizzie’s older sister, is seldom home.
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