The Girls

Dark secrets, a devastating mystery and the games people play: the gripping new novel from the bestselling author ofThe House We Grew Up InandThe Third Wife.

You live on a picturesque communalgardensquare, an oasis in urban London where your children run free, in and out of other peoples houses.

Youve known your neighbours for years and youtrustthem. Implicitly.

You think your children are safe.

But are theyreally?

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?

Utterly believable characters, a gripping story and a dark secret buried at its core: this is Lisa Jewell at her heart-stopping best.

Lisa Jewell had always planned to write her first book when she was fifty. In fact she wrote it when she was twenty-seven and had just been made redundant from her job as a secretary. Inspired by Nick HornbysHigh Fidelity,a book about young people just like her who lived in London, she wrote the first three chapters of what was to become her first novel,Ralphs Party. It went on to become the bestselling debut novel of 1998.

Fifteen bestselling novels later, she lives in London with her husband and their two daughters. Lisa writes every day in a local café where she can drink coffee, people-watch and, without access to the internet, actually get some work done . . .

Keep in touch with Lisa: www.lisa-jewell.co.uk www.facebook.com/LisaJewellOfficial @lisajewelluk on Twitter