I fully admit that this is how I came to read Charlotte Sometimes. Since then the book has received readership by many Goths who, if only for their love of The Cure, have sought out the original text which served to inspire one of the gloomiest anthems of twentieth century popular culture.
Read My Desire, Joan Copjecīy account of the author herself, Penelope Farmer's Charlotte Sometimes has remained in print since its first edition due in large part to the song by the same name released in October of 1981 by the Goth group, The Cure-indeed, it is the only novel of her large body of work to do so. Whenever this happens, anxiety signals us to take our distance once again. But once this double was thus detached, once it was set loose in the world, it was inevitable that the subject would occasionally "run into it," approach it a little too closely. This double, then, the guaranteed the autonomy of the subject, freedom from a pathetic existence in which it could be manipulated by other things, persons, or traditions. Not as oneself did one find rest ever, in her experience but as a wedge of darkness.
A typical reader of 'Charlotte Sometimes'
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