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The Roanoke Girls

On sale

9th March 2017

Price: £21.99

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Selected: Audiobook Downloadable / ISBN-13: 9781473660311

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A gripping, provocative thriller about the twisted secrets families keep, perfect for fans of The Girls.

‘Deeply, darkly twisted. I loved it.’ Sarah Hilary, SOMEONE ELSE’S SKIN
‘Utterly addictive.Lisa Hall, BETWEEN YOU AND ME
‘Dark and intense, [with] a compelling twist.’ L.S. Hilton, MAESTRA

Beautiful.
Rich.
Mysterious.

The Roanoke girls seem to have it all. But there’s a dark truth about them which is never spoken. Every girl either runs away, or dies.

Lane is one of the lucky ones. When she was fifteen, over one long, hot summer at her grandparents’ estate in rural Kansas, she found out what it really means to be a Roanoke girl. Lane ran, far and fast. Until eleven years later, when her cousin Allegra goes missing – and Lane has no choice but to go back.

She is a Roanoke girl.

Is she strong enough to escape a second time?

(P)2017 Penguin Random House LLP

Reviews

Jenny Boylan, <i>New York Times </i> bestselling author
[This] creepy thriller of doomed women is perfect for our times
Wendy Walker, author of <i>All Is Not Forgotten</i>
'An emotionally compelling page turner, The Roanoke Girls takes you inside the dark world of a twisted family'
Book by Book
'Atmospheric. Claustrophobic. Creepy...elicit[s] a slow sense of dread'
Katerina Diamond, <i>Sunday Times</i> bestselling author of <i>The Teacher</i>
Beautifully written and utterly captivating...and so so dark. I loved it!
Harriet Reuter Hapgood, author of <i>The Square Root of Summer</i>
'Creepy, twisted, compelling, The Roanoke Girls crawls under your skin and stays there'
L.S. Hilton, author of <i>Maestra</i>
'Dark and intense... with a compelling twist which will remain with you long after the book's last sentence'
Ava Marsh, author of <i>Untouchable</i>
Dark, disturbing, and deliciously written, The Roanoke Girls pulls you relentlessly into its twisted heart
Sarah Hilary (author of <i>Someone Else's Skin </i>)
'Deeply, darkly twisted. I loved it. A (vastly superior) Flowers in the Attic for a new generation'
Red Online
Fans of The Girls will love this sweat-soaked, sultry, small town tale full of shadows and lurking dread.
The Book Bag
Hauntingly beautiful and terribly macabre...not for the faint hearted... sweat-soaked, sultry and shocking
Liz Loves Books
'Utterly utterly gripping; at the end I was destroyed'
The Sunday Times
A debt to Daphne du Maurier is evident throughout this remarkably assured adult debut
Telegraph
A provocative thriller
Bloglovin'
A smoking hot barn burner of a book, diving into some of society's deepest taboos and yanking them from the shadows
Handwritten Girl
A creepy thriller [which] gets under the skin and takes you into dark world of what goes on behind closed doors. Seriously twisted and eerily sexy
Booklist
'An emotionally captivating read'
Laura McHugh, author of <i>The Weight of Blood</i>
'I was immediately drawn into The Roanoke Girls, a haunting and riveting look at one family's tangled legacy. You won't stop reading until you've unraveled the darkest of Roanoke's shocking secrets'
Rebecca Done (author of <i> This Secret We're Keeping </i>)
'One of the best books I've read in a long time...Gripping, twisty, dark - what a page turner. One not to miss!'
Ruth Dugall, author of <i>The Woman Before Me </i>
One of the most disturbingly gripping books I have ever read
Lisa Cutts, author of <i>Never Forget</i>
One of the most unsettling and thought-provoking books I've read... stunning and gripping
Lisa Hall (author of <i>Between You and Me </i>)
Seriously twisted and utterly addictive.
Publishers Weekly
'This gothic page-turner speeds inexorably toward the kind of devastating revelations readers won't soon forget'
Cressida McLaughlin, author of <i>The Canal Boat Cafe</i>
This book is stunning. Stunning but dark, so so dark. Wow.
Claire Douglas, <i>Sunday Times</i> bestselling author of <i>Local Girl, Missing </i>
Twisted, controversial...SO compelling and beautifully written