The Girls

Title: The Girls
Author: Lisa Jewell
Type: Hardback
Read: 16th January - 21st January 2016
Rating: 4/5
Published: 2nd July 2015 by Century

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?

Lisa Jewell is one of my favourite authors, that i will buy any book she releases. I got this on release day and its sat on my shelf for too long. It was a brilliant read.

The story is of Pip, Grace and their mother Clare who move to a flat which shares a communal garden. This part kinda reminded me of Notting Hill. As the new girls, Pip and Grace are ignored pretty much at first, they're noticed but ignored. Then gradaully they're intwined in the lives of the communal gardens residents. Grace more so than Pip.

Pip seems the more mature one of the two although she was the younger sister. She was so aware of everything and didn't trust many people at all. Grace being thirteen was just trying to find her own space, to distance herself from the past and get in with the new people in this garden. It caused a lot of drama especially between Tyler and Grace. When boys are thrown in the mix its every girl for themselves.

A night of a party and also Grace's thriteenth birthday, Grace is discovered lying motionless by Pip. Who has attacked her sister and why. This book then looks at what happend before that night, what came to it and why.

I loved the mystery part of it all. With Grace in a coma we only have Pip who is trying to figure evrything out and also the Police. Plus we also have resident Adele who's three daughters are known out in the garden. Adele is also known for her open door, anyone can come and she'll look after them.

But once Grace is hurt, secrets come out that are meant to stay hidden and everyone is suspect. Relationships are tested and boundries pushed.

It's a great story, I'm sorry i never read it sooner. I adore everything Lisa does and this is certainly one of the yes you must read books. I won't give out if we find out who has harmed Grace. Theres so many people you think have done it that as a reader we'll question everything.

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