The girls in the garden : a novel

ISBN: 9781501146626 (Atria pbk export ed.)
ISBN: 9781476792217 (hardcover)
Physical Description: 313 pages ; 24 cm print
Publisher: New York : Atria Books, 2016.
Copyright: &copy;2015
Badges: Top Holds Over Last 5 Years : 4 / 5.0

Summary: Imagine that you live on a pictresque communal garden square, an oasis in urban London where your children are free, in and out of other people's houses. Your neighbours have been living here for generations and you trust them implicitly. You think your children are safe. But are they really? When a father's schizophrenic break ends in tragedy, Clare must abscond with her two daughters, Grace and Pip, leaving their old home behind. Th idyllic Virginia Park appears to be the perfect opportunity for the three of them to forge a new life. Clare soon befriends stay-at-home mother Adele and her devastatingly charming husband Leo and the girls become enmeshed in a clique of neighbourhood children. Everyone seems so welcoming. Then one midsummer night, as a festive neighbourhood party is taking place, preteen Pip discovers her thirteen -year-old sister Grace lying unconscious and bleeding in a hidden corner of a lush rose garden. What really happened to her? And who is responsible? Dark secrets, a devastating mystery, and the games both adults and children play all swirl together in this gripping novel.