Publisher: Vintage Publishing
ISBN: 9781784740443
Number of pages: 368
Weight: 625 g
Dimensions: 240 x 162 x 33 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
"Stunning...thrilling... A spectacular achievement" * The Times *
"This book will break your heart and blow your mind" * Lena Dunham *
"The read of the summer" -- India Knight * Sunday Times *
"A tense and claustrophobic read" * Stylist *
"Taut, beautiful and savage, Cline's novel demands your attention" * Guardian *
"An exhilarating read" * Emma Healey, author of Elizabeth is Missing *
"Darker than anything Gone Girl had to offer" * Shortlist *
"A seductive and arresting coming-of-age story...spellbinding" * New York Times Book Review *
"An intensely atmospheric story that perfectly captures the aching loneliness and longing of a teenage girl." -- Sarra Manning * Red *
"One of the best novels I've read about female adolescence... And as with so many novels about cults, The Girls is set to inspire a cultish devotion all of its own" * Evening Standard *
"A joy to read... Intense, clever, beautiful" * Sunday Times *
"Brimming with intelligence and ideas... Buy it for the Mansonesque plot but savour it for its insights" * Irish Times *
"I don't know which is more amazing, Emma Cline's understanding of human beings or her mastery of language." -- Mark Haddon
"The Girls is a brilliant and intensely consuming novel -- imposing not just for a writer so young, but for any writer, any time" * Richard Ford *
"If the cult story and adolescent rite of passage are familiar tropes, what truly distinguishes this remarkable debut novel is its lush, beautifully calibrated prose, which captures the drug-fuelled squalor of the chaotic ranch and the uncertainties of youth... Brilliant." -- Simon Humphreys * Mail on Sunday *
"Emma Cline's first novel positively hums with fresh, startling, luminous prose. THE GIRLS announces the arrival of a thrilling new voice in American fiction." -- Jennifer Egan
"Set to be the biggest literary debut of the summer, you'll soon be seeing its retro cover everywhere... Cline perfectly captures the spirit and nuances of female adolescence" * Refinery29 *
"Heart-wrenchingly nostalgic... Brings the details of girlhood rushing back... new voice in American fiction" * Stylist *
"Precisely, gorgeously written... What sets the book apart is its exquisitely forensic portrait of what it is to be a young woman." -- Alice Jones * Scotsman *
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