Edith's Diary

Edith's Diary is one of Patricia Highsmith's most chilling psychological novels. It traces the steady mental decline of Edith Howland, an ordinary housewife whose life unravels after her husband leaves her for a younger woman and her son turns out to be a lazy disappointment. To cope with her grim reality, Edith constructs a utopian alternate life within the pages of her diary, creating a world where her son is successful and her family is thriving. As time passes, the boundary between her tragic reality and her diary's fantasies blurs to a horrifying breaking point.