Dead Girls
โ Scribed by Abigail Tarttelin
- Publisher
- Rare Bird Books
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- en-GB
- Weight
- 200 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
"Abigail Tarttelin is a fearless writer."
--Emily St. John Mandel
From the award-winning author of Golden Boy , a riveting novel that traces one girl's journey to understand what happened to her best friend, and what it might mean to be a girl.
Eastcastle, England in the late 1990s is a peaceful, rural community where children disappear into wheat fields to play until nightfall. There are no mobile phones and no cause to worry. For families, it's a place that allows the ultimate freedom, and this is the way eleven-year-old Thera Wilde and her friends are brought up: free.
So when Thera's best friend goes missing, Thera assumes Billie is off on another adventure. Then detectives come to question Thera at school, and she realises the worst has happened. Thera starts to ask, what is a pervert? Why are girls particularly at risk? And why do the men around her think she's theirs to touch? Questions the adults around her don't want to...
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