The Woman in the Wallpaper

Our penultimate stop is 18th Century France. The Oberst Factory crafts exquisite and particular toile de Jouy wallpaper for the country’s most fashionable and elite homes. But it has been shrouded in mystery ever since the death of Madame Oberst in strange circumstances five years earlier.

There are whispers she haunts the grounds and that it is her image that is featured on all of the factory’s prints. Sisters Sofi and Lana arrive at the factory to begin a new life following the death of their father and when Lana moves into a new bedchamber to begin work as a lady’s maid, she is shocked to find it covered with violet wallpaper patterned with vignetted scenes from a woman’s life. Unnervingly, the woman looks exactly like her and scenes from her own life are mirrored on the paper. 

Set against a backdrop of the French revolution, this haunting debut is infused with a chilling gothic malice that had shivers running down my spine.