The Girls

A coming-of-age tale like no other the book of the summer * Grazia * Stunningthrilling 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, Clines 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.