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The Ophelia Girls

Pocket
Engelsk
The Ophelia Girls
The Ophelia Girls
  • Forfatter: Jane Healey
  • Format: Pocket
  • Språk: Engelsk
  • Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
  • EAN: 9781529014860
  • Utgivelsesår: 2021
  • Bidragsyter: Healey, Jane
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<p><b>A mother's secret past collides with her daughter's present in this intoxicating novel from Jane Healey, the author of <i>The Animals at Lockwood Manor.</i></b><br><br>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.<br><br>Twenty-four years later, Ruth is a wife and mother of three children, and moves her family into her still-grand, but now somewhat dilapidated, childhood home following the death of her father. Her seventeen-year-old daughter, Maeve, is officially in remission and having been discharged from hospital can finally start acting like a 'normal' teenager with the whole