The Girls

The bestselling debut that took 2016 by storm - a brilliant coming-of-age story with a dark heart- 'This book will break your heart and blow your mind' Lena DunhamA 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.It's the summer of 1969 and restless, empty days stretch ahead of her. Until she sees them. The girls. Hair long and uncombed, jewelry catching the sun. And at their centre, Suzanne, black-haired and beautiful.If not for Suzanne, she might not have gone. But, intoxicated by her and the life she promises, Evie follows the girls back to the decaying ranch where they live.Was there a warning? A sign of what was coming? Or did Evie know already that there was no way back?'Taut, beautiful and savage, Cline's novel demands your attention' Guardian

“A coming-of-age tale like no other ... the book of the summer”

A coming-of-age tale like no other … the book of the summer Grazia
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

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.

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