The girls : a novel

Cline, Emma2016

Book

Total copies: 11

Summary

A debut novel featuring Evie Boyd, as she looks back to the summer of 1969, when she was 14 and living in California, and got sucked into the world of a mysterious group of girls living out in the desert. '}The Girls{ is a brilliant and intensely consuming novel...' Richard Ford ** The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller **** The New York Times Top Ten Bestseller **California. The summer of 1969. In the dying days of a floundering counter-culture a young girl is unwittingly caught up in unthinkable violence, and a decision made at this moment, on the cusp of adulthood, will shape her life....'This book will break your heart and blow your mind.' Lena DunhamEvie Boyd is desperate to be noticed. In the summer of 1969, empty days stretch out under the California sun. The smell of honeysuckle thickens the air and the sidewalks radiate heat.Until she sees them. The snatch of cold laughter. Hair, long and uncombed. Dirty dresses skimming the tops of thighs. Cheap rings like a second set of knuckles. The girls.And at the centre, Russell. Russell and the ranch, down a long dirt track and deep in the hills. Incense and clumsily strummed chords. Rumours of sex, frenzied gatherings, teen runaways.Was there a warning, a sign of things to come? Or is Evie already too enthralled by the girls to see that her life is about to be changed forever?