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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
‘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
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Reviews
[This] creepy thriller of doomed women is perfect for our times
'An emotionally compelling page turner, The Roanoke Girls takes you inside the dark world of a twisted family'
'Atmospheric. Claustrophobic. Creepy...elicit[s] a slow sense of dread'
Beautifully written and utterly captivating...and so so dark. I loved it!
'Creepy, twisted, compelling, The Roanoke Girls crawls under your skin and stays there'
'Dark and intense... with a compelling twist which will remain with you long after the book's last sentence'
Dark, disturbing, and deliciously written, The Roanoke Girls pulls you relentlessly into its twisted heart
'Deeply, darkly twisted. I loved it. A (vastly superior) Flowers in the Attic for a new generation'
Fans of The Girls will love this sweat-soaked, sultry, small town tale full of shadows and lurking dread.
Hauntingly beautiful and terribly macabre...not for the faint hearted... sweat-soaked, sultry and shocking
'Utterly utterly gripping; at the end I was destroyed'
A debt to Daphne du Maurier is evident throughout this remarkably assured adult debut
A provocative thriller
A smoking hot barn burner of a book, diving into some of society's deepest taboos and yanking them from the shadows
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
'An emotionally captivating read'
'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'
'One of the best books I've read in a long time...Gripping, twisty, dark - what a page turner. One not to miss!'
One of the most disturbingly gripping books I have ever read
One of the most unsettling and thought-provoking books I've read... stunning and gripping
Seriously twisted and utterly addictive.
'This gothic page-turner speeds inexorably toward the kind of devastating revelations readers won't soon forget'
This book is stunning. Stunning but dark, so so dark. Wow.
Twisted, controversial...SO compelling and beautifully written