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'The Girls' is set in a terrace of houses and flats in London, and they share one of those picturesque communal walled gardens. Whilst providing lots of freedom for the kids who live there, it also has a claustrophobic feel about it - it's a place of secrets, whisperings and past misdeeds. When Grace is found unconscious in the gardens on her 13th birthday, it opens a can of worms for the residents. Mysteries from the past are brought to light, along with many questions that need to be answered....
Traveling Sisters Review by NORMA, BRENDA and JALINE!!LISA JEWELL sure has a knack at keeping us totally engaged with all the red herrings and leaving so many cliffhangers throughout this book that had us all turning those pages as fast as we could. THE GIRL IN THE GARDEN by LISA JEWELL is an engrossing, intriguing, steady-paced, and a suspenseful mystery with lots of twists and turns along the way that kept us all reading and guessing right to the very end. We were pretty much suspicious of e...
A great read with twists and turns and a surprising end.Clare and her daughters Grace and Pip are forced to find new lodging after a traumatic event. They are hesitantly welcomed into the new community, and things are not quite as they seem.The housing groups’ central focus is a park with gardens at the center upon which children and adults alike freely wander the field and playground. People come and go while enjoying the summer outdoor activities. It seems everyone knows something about everyo...
Captivating and atmospheric. The best mystery I've read in a long, long time.Set in London, this is a story about a close-knit community surrounding a central 3-acre park, complete with a playground, rose garden, even a secret garden. Many of the people who live here have known each other for a lifetime, since they were children, and many have stayed in this same neighborhood until adulthood, now raising their own children here as well. So the children of friends are now friends themselves, play...
Great concept and enjoyed some of the characters, but in the end, it just felt like a very average book.
5 Stars for this reading experience Fantastic read with Norma and Jaline! Such great fun and what a great choice for us!Our full Traveling Sister reviews can be found along with Norma and my reviews on our sister blog:http://www.twogirlslostinacouleereadi...
This is a character-driven novel at it’s best. Odd, eccentric, maybe even a little strange, the characters in this book kept me in the dark until the end. I had a hard time deciphering who was legit and who was shady. The story takes place in central London in a community that backs up to a large private park. A park where kids are free to roam from house to house, at all hours of the day, and the adults are in everyone else's business. It’s communal living and almost manages to comes off as cha...
*spoiler alert* Adele knows who did it. She manages to piece everything together to the point that she knows exactly who did it and how and 90% of why. In figuring it all out she also solves a 20-some-year-old murder. She could prove it to the police if she wanted. But she does nothing. At all. She doesn't even attempt to help reform the girls involved. She just sticks her fingers in her ears and tries to forget it happened. Tries to ignore the fact that these girls are growing up to be horrific...
I remember reading the description for this book a while back and being so excited about reading it. Set in a community situated on a garden, there's a sense of community to this book that I haven't read elsewhere. Everyone feels intimately connected (sometimes far too much so), and though each family has their own dwelling the bulk of what happens centers around this garden. I hesitate to go into too much detail because each development is important to the progression of the story. Sure, you ki...
What is it with all these books with “Girls” in the title? The last book I read was The Girls. Now I have just finished The Girls in the Garden – which I gather was titled The Girls in the UK. And last year I read Those Girls…And what is it with seat mates on flights who don’t get the hint when you have your nose in a book? Last year it happened when I was reading The Seven Good Years. Yesterday, it happened as I was reading The Girls in the Garden. Some drunken idiot sitting next to me kept ask...
