She's a Lamb!

By: Hambrock, Meredith

A darkly comic suspense in the vein of All's Well and Yellowface, She's a Lamb is an edgy and incisive novel that marches toward showtime with a growing unease about the dangers of magical thinking and the depths of delusion

Jessamyn St. Germain is meant to be a star. Not an actor who occasionally books yogurt commercials and certainly not a lowly usher at one of Vancouver's smallest regional theaters. No, she is bound for greatness, and that's why the part of Maria in the theater's upcoming production of The Sound of Music is hers. Or it's going to be.

Jessamyn may have been relegated to the position of childminder for the little brats playing the von Trapp children, but it's so obvious she's there for a different reason -- the director wants her close to the role so when Samantha, the lead, inevitably fails, Jessamyn will be there to take her place in the spotlight.

This must be it. Because if it isn't, well, then every skipped meal, every brutal rehearsal, every inch won against a man attempting to drag her down will have all been for nothing.

Sharp, relentless, and darkly funny, She's a Lamb is a cutting satire about the grotesque pall patriarchy casts over one woman's delusional quest to achieve her dreams and the depths she will sink to for a chance at the life she's convinced she deserves.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1770417893
• ISBN13: 9781770417892
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: ECW Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Completely Crazy Fun!

Stepping into the mind of Jessamyn St. Germain is a real trip! The way she rewrites the past, present and future to make her the center and star of everything, how even when she loses out on the role of Maria in Sound of Music, and ends up being an assistant director and child minder for the child actors in the play, it is a sure fire way to upstage Samantha and get the part anyways, just as soon as the director sees her pure talent. It doesn't help that she surrounds herself with boyfriends (that are kinda deranged stalkers) and Broadway star turned teacher who raises her up (as long as Jessamyn pays) to believe she is the best, and her protege. And the way it is written, it mostly seems quite logical, except perhaps the spirals of imagination of injuries and death of the people that are hating on her (and acting on those thoughts!). The narrator did an amazing job bringing Jessamyn to life, craziness and delusions woven seamlessly with the truth (which you do get a quick glimpse of before Jessamyn changes it to better fit her world) and I laughed and gasped and possibly went a little insane imagining this crazy tale. Very entertaining and wild! Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the chance to enter into this deluded world of Jessamyn and her dream of being the one Maria!