The bestselling debut that took 2016 by storm - a brilliant coming-of-age story with a dark heart. California, 1969. Evie Boyd is desperate to be noticed. Until she sees them. Hair, long and uncombed. The girls. And at the centre, Russell and the ranch. Rumours of sex, frenzied gatherings, teen runaways. Is Evie too enthralled by the girls to see that her life is about to be changed forever?

Informationen zum Autor Emma Cline is the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of The Girls, the story collection Daddy and The Guest . The Girls was a finalist for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize, the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. It was a New York Times Editors' Choice and was the winner of the Shirley Jackson Award. Cline's stories have been published in The New Yorker , Granta , The Paris Review and The Best American Short Stories . She received the Plimpton Prize from The Paris Review and an O'Henry Award, and was chosen as one of Granta 's Best Young American Novelists. Klappentext A gripping and dark fictionalised account of life inside the Manson family. If you're lost, they'll find you... Evie Boyd is fourteen and desperate to be noticed. It's the summer of 1969 and restless, empty days stretch ahead of her. Until she sees them. The girls. Hair long and uncombed, jewellery catching the sun. And at their centre, Suzanne, black-haired and beautiful. If not for Suzanne, she might not have gone. But, intoxicated by her and the life she promises, Evie follows the girls back to the decaying ranch where they live. Was there a warning? A sign of what was coming? Or did Evie know already that there was no way back? 'Taut, beautiful and savage, Cline's novel demands your attention' Guardian Zusammenfassung A gripping and dark fictionalised account of life inside the Manson family from one of the most exciting young voices in fiction. If you're lost, they'll find youEvie Boyd is fourteen and desperate to be noticed.

Autorentext
Emma Cline is the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of The Girls, the story collection Daddy and The Guest. The Girls was a finalist for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize, the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. It was a New York Times Editors' Choice and was the winner of the Shirley Jackson Award. Cline's stories have been published in The New Yorker, Granta, The Paris Review and The Best American Short Stories. She received the Plimpton Prize from The Paris Review and an O'Henry Award, and was chosen as one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists.

Klappentext

A gripping and dark fictionalised account of life inside the Manson family.

If you're lost, they'll find you...

Evie Boyd is fourteen and desperate to be noticed.

It's the summer of 1969 and restless, empty days stretch ahead of her. Until she sees them. The girls. Hair long and uncombed, jewellery catching the sun. And at their centre, Suzanne, black-haired and beautiful.

If not for Suzanne, she might not have gone. But, intoxicated by her and the life she promises, Evie follows the girls back to the decaying ranch where they live.

Was there a warning? A sign of what was coming? Or did Evie know already that there was no way back?

'Taut, beautiful and savage, Cline's novel demands your attention' Guardian

Zusammenfassung
A gripping and dark fictionalised account of life inside the Manson family from one of the most exciting young voices in fiction. If you're lost, they'll find youEvie Boyd is fourteen and desperate to be noticed.