With the help of Vintage Books, we were able to offer 15 of our reading groups the exciting opportunity to read The Girls by Emma Cline ahead of publication, and put their questions to the author! Check out our video of Emma answering reading group’s questions below.
About The Girls
‘This book will break your heart and blow your mind.’ Lena Dunham
Evie Boyd is desperate to be noticed. In the summer of 1969, empty days stretch out under the California sun. The smell of honeysuckle thickens the air and the sidewalks radiate heat.
Until she sees them. The snatch of cold laughter. Hair, long and uncombed. Dirty dresses skimming the tops of thighs. Cheap rings like a second set of knuckles. The girls.
And at the centre, Russell. Russell and the ranch, down a long dirt track and deep in the hills. Incense and clumsily strummed chords. Rumours of sex, frenzied gatherings, teen runaways. Was there a warning, a sign of things to come? Or is Evie already too enthralled by the girls to see that her life is about to be changed forever?
Emma Cline is from California. She was the recipient of the 2014 Paris Review Plimpton Prize for Fiction. The Girls is her first novel.
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Read an extract of The Girls from Vintage Books.
