I'm sitting on my couch, watching the local news. There's Chloe's
parents, the mayor, the hangers on, all grouped round the pond for
the ceremony. It's ten years since Chloe and Carl drowned, and
they've finally chosen a memorial - a stupid summerhouse. The mayor
has a spade decked out in pink and white ribbon, and he's started
to dig. You can tell from their faces that something has gone
wrong. But I'm the one who knows straightaway that the mayor has
found a body. And I know who it is. This is the tale of three
fourteen-year-old girls and a volatile combination of lies,
jealousy and perversion that ends in tragedy. Except the tragedy is
even darker and more tangled than their tight-knit community has
been persuaded to believe. Blackly funny and with a surreal edge to
its portrait of a northern English town, Jenn Ashworth's gripping
novel captures the intensity of girls' friendships and the dangers
they face in a predatory adult world they think they can handle.
And it shows just how far that world is willing to let sentiment
get in the way of the truth.
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