A gripping and dark fictionalised account of life inside the Manson family from one of the most exciting young voices in fiction.
If you’re lost, they’ll find you…
Evie Boyd is fourteen and desperate to be noticed.
A coming-of-age tale like no other …
the book of the summer
Stunning…thrilling… A spectacular achievement
This book will break your heart and blow your mind
The read of the summer
A tense and claustrophobic read
Taut, beautiful and savage, Cline’s novel demands your attention
An exhilarating read
Darker than anything
Gone Girl had to offer
A seductive and arresting coming-of-age story...spellbinding
An intensely atmospheric story that perfectly captures the aching loneliness and longing of a teenage girl.
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
A joy to read… Intense, clever, beautiful
Brimming with intelligence and ideas… Buy it for the Mansonesque plot but savour it for its insights
I don't know which is more amazing, Emma Cline's understanding of human beings or her mastery of language.
Emma Cline is the
Sunday Times and
New York Times bestselling author of
The Girls and the story collection
Daddy.
The Girls was a finalist for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize, the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Award, and the
Los Angeles Times Book Prize. It was a
New York Times Editors' Choice and was the winner of the Shirley Jackson Award. Cline's stories have been published in
The New Yorker,
Granta,
The Paris Review and
The Best American Short Stories. She received the Plimpton Prize from
The Paris Review and an O'Henry Award, and was chosen as one of
Granta's Best Young American Novelists.