![]() ![]() ![]() How far will the ambition of both women drive them?Ī remote New Hampshire cabin is the setting for Paul Tremblay’s ‘horrifying’ The Cabin at the End of the World. But then Diane arrives as the latest member of Severin’s team, cool, beautiful and mysterious, an adult version of “the 17-year-old girl standing in that far corner of my head, the one glaring at me, needy, full of thunder and consequence”. Kit, who has devoted herself to work since school – how else could she get a doctorate by the age of 30? – is desperate to land one of them. ![]() Much-needed funding has arrived for this under-researched condition, but there are only a couple of places on the programme. “Don’t we all feel we have something banked down deep inside just waiting for its moment, the slow gathering of hot blood?” Like PMT on steroids, it affects, 3-8% of women, resulting in terrible mood swings and uncontrollable rage. Prestigious science scholarships duly follow, and the two haven’t seen each other for years when we meet Kit again as an adult – a researcher in the lab of the dazzlingly talented Dr Severin, who is looking into premenstrual dysphoric disorder. ![]()
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