Combining psychological suspense with elements of the ghost story,
Shadow Girls is a literary exploration of girlhood by the Booker
Prize-shortlisted author of Jamrach's Menagerie. Manchester, 1960s.
Sally, a cynical fifteen-year-old schoolgirl, is much too clever
for her own good. When partnered with her best friend, Pamela - a
mouthy girl who no-one else much likes - Sally is unable to resist
the temptation of rebellion. The pair play truant, explore
forbidden areas of the old school and - their favourite - torment
posh Sylvia Rose, with her pristine uniform and her beautiful voice
that wins every singing prize. One day, Sally ventures
(unauthorised, of course) up to the greenhouse on the roof alone.
Or at least she thinks she's alone, until she sees Sylvia on the
roof too. Sally hurries downstairs, afraid of Sylvia snitching, but
Sylvia appears to be there as well. Amidst the resurgence of ghost
stories and superstition among the girls, a tragedy is about to
occur, one that will send Sally further and further down an uncanny
rabbit hole... Praise for Shadow Girls: 'A terrific evocation of a
bygone Manchester girlhood, poignant and creepy by turns, by one of
the most under-rated writers in England' D.J. Taylor 'Compulsively
readable, Shadow Girls is an atmospheric, shape-shifting novel,
part coming-of-age, part supernatural thriller. Birch renders the
atmosphere of the sixties impeccably, and conveys most brilliantly
the taut, complicated relationships between teenage girls with all
their neediness, bravado and gullibility' Lesley Glaister
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