Summary
A mother’s secret past collides with her daughter’s present in this intoxicating novel from Jane Healey.
In the summer of 1973, teenage Ruth and her four friends are obsessed with pre-Raphaelite paintings, and a little bit obsessed with each other. They spend the scorching summer days in the river by Ruth’s grand family home, pretending to be the drowning Ophelia and recreating tableaus of other tragic mythical heroines. But by the end of the summer, real tragedy has found them.
…Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529014860 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1529014867 |
| Author: | Jane Healey |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Mantle |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 27 July 2021 |
| Weight: | 456g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 153mm x 28mm |
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About The Author
Jane Healey
Jane Healey studied English Literature at Warwick University. She was shortlisted for the Bristol Short Story Prize 2013, the Costa Short Story Award 2014, the Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2016 and the Penguin Random House WriteNow mentoring programme in 2017. The Ophelia Girls is her second novel. Her first, The Animals at Lockwood Manor, was published in 2020. She lives in Edinburgh.
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