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The Girls
  • Imprint: Arrow

  • Published: 05/05/2016

  • ISBN: 9780099599470

  • Length: 432  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 27mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 298g

  • RRP: £7.99

The Girls

Lisa Jewell

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Dark secrets, a devastating mystery and the games people play: the gripping new novel from the bestselling author of The House We Grew Up In and The Third Wife.

You live on a picturesque communal garden square, an oasis in urban London where your children run free, in and out of other people’s houses.

You’ve known your neighbours for years and you trust them. Implicitly.

You think your children are safe.

But are they really?

Midsummer night: a thirteen-year-old girl is found unconscious in a dark corner of the garden square. What really happened to her? And who is responsible?

Utterly believable characters, a gripping story and a dark secret buried at its core: this is Lisa Jewell at her heart-stopping best.

  • Imprint: Arrow

  • Published: 05/05/2016

  • ISBN: 9780099599470

  • Length: 432  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 27mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 298g

  • RRP: £7.99


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About the Author

Lisa Jewell

Lisa Jewell is the Sunday Times bestselling author of sixteen books, including her most recent novel, the Sunday Times bestseller Watching You. She lives in London with her husband and two children.

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