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Fiction & Poetry, Modern & Contemporary Fiction

The Girls

Lisa Jewell (author)

Paperback Published on: 16/09/2021

£9.99

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Bookseller Reviews

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Darkly compelling

Who do you trust? Friends, family, close neighbours? When your child is attacked who is to blame? And on the other hand, how blindly do you protect those ... READ MORE

Chrys - Plymouth

One of 'The Girls' to Read!

Ever since having read Lisa's 'None of This Is True' I have been hooked on her stuff, slowly but surely making my way through the entirety of her backlist.... READ MORE

Ryan, Waterstones Gateshead

Synopsis

You live on a picturesque communal garden square, an oasis in urban London where your children run free, in and out of other people's houses.

You've known your neighbours for years and you trust them. Implicitly.

You think your children are safe.

But are they really?

Midsummer night: a thirteen-year-old girl is found unconscious in a dark corner of the garden square. What really happened to her? And who is responsible?

Utterly believable characters, a gripping story and a dark secret buried at its core: this is Lisa Jewell at her heart-stopping best.

Publisher information

Publisher: Cornerstone
ISBN: 9780099599470
Number of pages: 432
Dimensions: 198 x 130 x 27 mm
Weight: 297g
Languages: English

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Couldn't put it down

I absolutely loved this book. It grabbed me from the very first paragraph, which is rare these days, and had me hooked until the very end. The characters ... READ MORE

Joolie@midsummer

The Girls by Lisa Jewell

I really enjoyed this novel, which I thought provided a good blend of a crime thriller and a family saga. The characters were all believable and engaging,... READ MORE

HML11

gripped from page 1

Lisa Jewell has created a fantastic book. It's so descriptive and the characters are believeable. Although the books main focus is around the girl being fo... READ MORE

Nicola Yates

Something different from a favourite author

Review: now everybody knows I am a massive Lisa Jewell fan, this novel has been marketed as being a bit different from the others, as her last novel was an... READ MORE

Shoefeind

The girls review

This was a truly amazing book. At the beginning it felt slightly childish. However it progressed to deal with some serious issues and ideas. I believe this... READ MORE

Phoebe Maskell-Taylor

Dark with a saccharine ending

A novel about the tensions and joys which come from intense relationships amongst adults and young people. A mother and her two daughters move to a close- ... READ MORE

Emma Allotey

A fabulous read with a chilling undertone

When their home is destroyed, Clare and her two daughters, Grace and Pip move into a flat in Virginia Terrace, just one of many properties surrounding a cr... READ MORE

KarenD

light family drama

I absolutely loved Lisa Jewells, The House We Grew up in and The Third Wife so bought this book without hesitation. I did enjoy the novel but not as much... READ MORE

sandyhutch

Lisa Jewell - the girls.

This book was a pretty enjoyable book to be sent to review. When I started out reading it, I found that it was a good page turner, flowing in structure and... READ MORE

Georgina

Gripping from the first page to the last

This book was the first book that I have read by Lisa Jewell and what a book it was. From the first page I was hooked. I would try and find time where I co... READ MORE

jasbinder kaur

A good summer read

I received this as a review copy - I really enjoyed reading the book, and the setting as well as characters make it a very quick and interesting read. Like... READ MORE

Inga Jones

You won't be able to put this down!

I can't remember the last time I was persuaded to read way beyond the time when I really ought to be asleep. However, Lisa Jewell so skilfully builds the t... READ MORE

Debbie S

All is not rosy in the garden...

Swallow this book in one go: it is an intoxicatingly female novel, unflinching and deliciously gory. Beginning during one hot, sweaty summer, the majestic... READ MORE

Lizzie

The Girls by Lisa Jewell

This is the first book that I have read by Lisa Jewell. I love the storyline surrounding the characters in the book. It was a really good read and I would ... READ MORE

Corinne Flavell

The Jewell in the Crown

Lisa Jewell's books get better and better. This one starts with a young girl finding her twelve-year-older sister unconscious, half-undressed and with her... READ MORE

Vicki Wilson

Compelling read and change of direction for Jewell

Many thanks to Waterstones for my review copy. I read Lisa Jewell back in the 1990s when she was a chick lit author and I expected 'The Girls' to be in the... READ MORE

Penyth

Not a fan of this novel!

The Girls in the Garden by Lisa Jewell is set in modern day London. Clare Wild and her two daughters, Pip (11) and Clare (12) have just moved into an open... READ MORE

Kris Anderson, The Avid Reader

Just a bunch of horrible kids and inattentive parents

Lisa Jewell is a brilliant writer but for me this wasn't one of her best (although still a cut above a lot of the psychological thrillers there are floodin... READ MORE

kendrafortune

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