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For as long as she can remember, Belle has been insidiously obsessed with her skin and skincare videos. When her estranged mother Noelle mysteriously dies, Belle finds herself back in Southern California, grappling with lingering questions about her death. The stakes escalate when a strange woman in red appears at the funeral, offering a tantalizing clue about her mother’s demise, followed by a cryptic video about a transformative spa experience. With the help of a pair of red shoes, Belle is lured into the barbed embrace of the same lavish culty spa her mother to which her mother was devoted.

Samantha Heather Mackey couldn't be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England's Warren University. A scholarship student who prefers the company of her dark imagination to that of most people, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort - a clique of unbearably twee rich girls who call each other 'Bunny' and are often found entangled in a group hug so tight they become one.

Miranda Fitch’s life is a waking nightmare. The accident that ended her burgeoning acting career left her with excruciating chronic back pain, a failed marriage and a deepening dependence on painkillers. And now she’s on the verge of losing her job as a college theatre director. Determined to put on Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well, the play that promised, and cost, her everything, she faces a mutinous cast hell-bent on staging Macbeth instead. Miranda sees her chance at redemption slip through her fingers.

Growing up in the suburban hell of Misery Saga (a.k.a. Mississauga), Lizzie has never liked the way she looks - even though her best friend Mel says she's the pretty one. She starts dating guys online, but she's afraid to send pictures, even when her skinny friend China does her makeup: she knows no one would want her if they could really see her. So she starts to lose weight. She grows up and gets thin. But no matter how much she loses, will she ever see herself as anything other than a fat girl?

In the cult classic novel Bunny, Samantha Heather Mackey, a lonely outsider student at a highly selective MFA program in New England, was first ostracised and then seduced by a clique of her saccharine sweet, rich girl cohort (who call one another ‘Bunny’). An invitation to the Bunnies’ Smut Salon leads Samantha down a dark rabbit hole (pun intended) into the violently surreal world of their off-campus Workshops where monstrous creations are conjured with wondrous yet deadly consequences.

Samantha Heather Mackey è un'assoluta outsider alla Warren University dove frequenta un corso iperselettivo di scrittura creativa. La fantasia di Samantha è molto più cupa di quella della maggior parte degli studenti del suo anno, tanto più quando si tratta del gruppetto di ragazze ricche e vestite di colori pastello che incontra sempre a lezione.

Quand Samantha accepte l’invitation à une soirée organisée par quatre filles un peu sinistres, elle plonge sans le savoir dans un monde inquiétant, entre le conte de fées et l’histoire d’horreur.

Für die perfekte Haut tun Mirabelle und ihre Mutter Noelle alles: Skincare-Videos, Kollagen-Smoothies und Dreifach-Peelings bestimmen ihren Tag, in ihren Wohnungen türmen sich die Tiegel und Fläschchen. Doch würde die Mutter sogar so weit gehen, für die Schönheit zu sterben? Nach ihrem mysteriösen Unfalltod sucht Mirabelle in Kalifornien nach Antworten und stößt auf La Maison de Méduse, das kultartige Luxus-Spa, in dem ihre Mutter Stammkundin war. Nach und nach gerät auch sie immer tiefer in die Fänge der Beautyfarm – eine surreale Reise zu den Abgründen des Schönheitskults und zum Kern ihrer Beziehung zu Noelle beginnt.

"O Bunny, du bist sooo genial!" Margaret Atwood Sie flechten sich Zöpfe, sind nur als Gruppe unterwegs und nennen sich gegenseitig Bunny: An Samanthas College für Erzählende Künste ist die Clique der Bunnys, bestehend aus unerträglich reichen und hübschen jungen Frauen, sehr begehrt. Samantha hingegen ist eine Außenseiterin, ihre einzige Freundin Ava hat für die Bunnys nur Verachtung übrig. Doch eines Tages erhält sie eine Einladung zum sagenumwobenen Schundsalon, einer Mischung aus Party und künstlerischer Performance, bei der die Bunnys Erstaunliches hervorbringen.

Fin da quanto può ricordare, Belle è stata insidiosamente ossessionata dalla sua pelle e dai video sulla cura della pelle. Quando la sua madre Noelle, da cui era separata, muore misteriosamente, Belle si ritrova di nuovo nel sud della California, a doversi confrontare con i considerevoli debiti di sua madre e a lottare con le domande irrisolte sulla sua morte. Le cose si complicano quando una strana donna in rosso appare al funerale, offrendo un indizio allettante sulla morte di sua madre, seguita da un video criptico su un'esperienza di spa trasformativa.