![]() ![]() With each memory that resurfaces, she circles closer to the violent secret at the heart of the school’s scandal. Ruminating on the past, Josephine becomes obsessed with her teenage identity and the forgotten girls of her one-time orbit. ![]() ![]() The visit provokes blurry recollections of those doomed final weeks that rocked the community. Yet now Josephine inexplicably finds herself returning to her old stomping grounds. She hasn’t spoken to another Divine in fifteen years, not since the day the school shuttered its doors in disgrace. For Josephine, now in her thirties, the years at St John were a lifetime ago. ![]() They were fiercely loyal, sharp-tongued, and cuttingly humorous in the way that only teenage girls can be. The girls of St John the Divine, an elite English boarding school, were notorious for flipping their hair, harassing teachers, chasing boys, and chain-smoking cigarettes. “A terrific, entertaining and astute work and one of considerable relevance to the way we live now.”-Sarah Perry With the emotional power of Normal People and the reflective haze of The Girls, a stunning, compulsively readable literary debut set in a secluded boarding school, exploring the intoxicating, destructive relationships between teenage girls. ![]()
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