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The girls in the garden : a novel / Lisa Jewell.
Summary:
Deep in the heart of London, in a lush communal square, as a festive garden party is taking place, a thirteen year-old girl lies unconscious and bloody in a hidden corner. What really happened to her? And who is responsible?
Imagine that you live on a pictresque communal garden square, an oasis in urban London where your children are free, in and out of other people's houses. Your neighbours have been living here for generations and you trust them implicitly. You think your children are safe. But are they really? When a father's schizophrenic break ends in tragedy, Clare must abscond with her two daughters, Grace and Pip, leaving their old home behind. Th idyllic Virginia Park appears to be the perfect opportunity for the three of them to forge a new life. Clare soon befriends stay-at-home mother Adele and her devastatingly charming husband Leo and the girls become enmeshed in a clique of neighbourhood children. Everyone seems so welcoming. Then one midsummer night, as a festive neighbourhood party is taking place, preteen Pip discovers her thirteen -year-old sister Grace lying unconscious and bleeding in a hidden corner of a lush rose garden. What really happened to her? And who is responsible? Dark secrets, a devastating mystery, and the games both adults and children play all swirl together in this gripping novel.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781476792217 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 9781501146626 (Atria pbk export ed.)
- Physical Description: 313 pages ; 24 cm
- Publisher: New York : Atria Books, 2016.
- Copyright: ©2015
Content descriptions
- General Note:
- First published in Great Britain by Century in 2015.
Search for related items by subject
- Subject:
- Teenage girls > Crimes against > Fiction.
Families > Fiction.
Neighborhoods > Fiction.
Secrecy > Fiction.
London (England) > Fiction. - Genre:
- Mystery fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Russell and District Regional Library.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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