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The Divines: A Novel (originale 2021; edizione 2021)

di Ellie Eaton (Autore)

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Fiction. Literature. HTML: The Elin Hilderbrand Literati Book Club Pick! *Recommended by Entertainment Weekly CNN * Harper's BAZAAR * E! Online * Refinery 29 * Bustle * Shondaland * Vulture * The Millions * Lit Hub * Electric Literature * Parade * MSN * and more! "For when you want a coming-of-age novel with a dark twist. In this provocative novel, the past isn't always as far away as you think." �??The Skimm** "[S]o beautifully written that I marked lines�??for their perceptive genius�??on nearly every page... This perfectly paced novel examines class structures and sexual identity and betrayals and tragedy in a way that had be both wanting to rip through the pages and wanting to savor each sentence until the extremely satisfying end." �??Elin Hilderbrand for Literati Can we ever really escape our pasts? The girls of St John the Divine, an elite English boarding school, were notorious for flipping their hair, harassing teachers, chasing boys, and chain-smoking cigarettes. They were fiercely loyal, sharp-tongued, and cuttingly humorous in the way that only teenage girls can be. For Josephine, now in her thirties, the years at St John were a lifetime ago. She hasn't spoken to another Divine in fifteen years, not since the day the school shuttered its doors in disgrace. Yet now Josephine inexplicably finds herself returning to her old stomping grounds. The visit provokes blurry recollections of those doomed final weeks that rocked the community. Ruminating on the past, Josephine becomes obsessed with her teenage identity and the forgotten girls of her one-time orbit. With each memory that resurfaces, she circles closer to the violent secret at the heart of the school's scandal. But the more Josephine recalls, the further her life unravels, derailing not just her marriage and career, but her entire sense of self. Suspenseful, provocative, and compulsively readable, The Divines explores the tension between the lives we lead as adults and the experiences that form us, probing us to consider how our memories as adults compel us to reexamine our… (altro)

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Utente:	kresshagen
Titolo:	The Divines: A Novel
Autori:	Ellie Eaton (Autore)
Info:	William Morrow (2021), 320 pages
Collezioni:	Read, La tua biblioteca, In lettura, Da leggere
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I get it: we all learn from our past and hope to make amends from mistakes when it's possible. That's what this book was about which focused on a woman reflecting on her school days. Slow going with the first half of the book about a wealthy girls group called "the divines" that feels superior over the workers of her town - the "townies." The last half was better as the plot started to come together. But the end was my favorite as the drama was finally over.

Josephine shares her secret past with her handsome husband for the first time on their honeymoon. Then she keeps drifting back wondering what happened to the people of her school since she moved away. She returns to her school to find answers about her past friends and those she picked on.

My thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for allowing me to read this advanced copy.
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Jacsun | Oct 5, 2021 |

Dnf at 30%. Not a bad story, but I didn’t find the dual timelines to be effective as most of the action took place in the past. If it had been set back then and in present tense it would have been a lot more exciting! (

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lucylove73 | Aug 31, 2021 |

Josephine is one of the Divines, girls attending an expensive boarding school in England. In her fifth year, however, things go badly wrong, beginning with her sharing a room with an unpopular girl, which jeopardizes her social standing and ending in mayhem and tragedy. Going back and forth between this pivotal year and Josephine as a married adult, Ellie Eaton tells the story of what happens when over-privileged girls are kept together with too little supervision and what happens when a girl who has always been a follower is put in a position where her values are tested.

I'm a sucker for a school story, especially one set it such a different world, but this one ultimately pulled its punches in ways that left me dissatisfied. I did like how Josephine was passive in her own story, how she was unable to parse the motivations of others, or even understand herself. Feeling left out of her friend group had her willing to make friends with a townie, a girl who both encourages Josephine to take a new look at her privileged life and who has her own motivations for hanging out with her. Josephine as an adult is not that different from Josephine as a teenager. She's contemptuous of her previous life, but also fascinated and eager to find out what happened to her former schoolmates. (

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RidgewayGirl | Mar 24, 2021 |

Sephine has escaped from her background - newly married to sculptor and working as a freelance journalist, she lives a bohemian life. Twenty years ago though Josephine was a member of the fifth form at an elite girls' boarding school, St John the Divine. These Divines were rude, arrogant and entitled but Josephine broke the mould by mixing with a 'Townie' until a scandal engulfed the school and it shut.
Josephine is not really likeable at any point in this book and is incredibly self-centred which I found irritating. However, I loved the premise of the poor working-class town dependent on the elite school for its economy whilst loathing the students. There's also an insight into the whole 'old boys club' idea. Certain sections were very long-winded, I found myself more interested in the school memories than pretentious modern day bohemian living, but I did stay engrossed to the end (

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pluckedhighbrow | Feb 24, 2021 |

This is a coming-of-age story like no other and it does not make my want to send my granddaughter to a private boarding school. The girls of St. John the Divine are cruel to one another. They are cruel elitists. Told by a graduate of the school, Josephine, it looks back on her time as a “Divine”. Now married and living in the US she had pushed the school to the back of her mind until her honeymoon when she and her husband stopped by to visit. Josephine has reason to regret her actions which she thought led to the death of her roommate. She’s haunted by them, and as she says “ I was a teenager, self-obsessed, too caught up in my own narrative to care about anyone but myself.” While all the characters, including the adults were unlikable, the audiobook made it impossible to put down. With great voice change and pace, Imogen Church has created a listening experience that will remain with me for a long time. (

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Fiction. Literature. HTML:

The Elin Hilderbrand Literati Book Club Pick!

Recommended by Entertainment Weekly * CNN * Harper's BAZAAR * E! Online * Refinery 29 * Bustle * Shondaland * Vulture * The Millions * Lit Hub * Electric Literature * Parade * MSN * and more!

"For when you want a coming-of-age novel with a dark twist. In this provocative novel, the past isn't always as far away as you think." �??The Skimm

"[S]o beautifully written that I marked lines�??for their perceptive genius�??on nearly every page... This perfectly paced novel examines class structures and sexual identity and betrayals and tragedy in a way that had be both wanting to rip through the pages and wanting to savor each sentence until the extremely satisfying end." �??Elin Hilderbrand for Literati

Can we ever really escape our pasts?

The girls of St John the Divine, an elite English boarding school, were notorious for flipping their hair, harassing teachers, chasing boys, and chain-smoking cigarettes. They were fiercely loyal, sharp-tongued, and cuttingly humorous in the way that only teenage girls can be. For Josephine, now in her thirties, the years at St John were a lifetime ago. She hasn't spoken to another Divine in fifteen years, not since the day the school shuttered its doors in disgrace.

Yet now Josephine inexplicably finds herself returning to her old stomping grounds. The visit provokes blurry recollections of those doomed final weeks that rocked the community. Ruminating on the past, Josephine becomes obsessed with her teenage identity and the forgotten girls of her one-time orbit. With each memory that resurfaces, she circles closer to the violent secret at the heart of the school's scandal. But the more Josephine recalls, the further her life unravels, derailing not just her marriage and career, but her entire sense of self.

Suspenseful, provocative, and compulsively readable, The Divines explores the tension between the lives we lead as adults and the experiences that form us, probing us to consider how our memories as adults compel us to reexamine our

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