{"product_id":"the-divines-a-novel-isbn-9780063012196","title":"The Divines: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Elin Hilderbrand Literati Book Club Pick!\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRecommended by \u003cem\u003eEntertainment Weekly * \u003c\/em\u003eCNN \u003cem\u003e* Harper's BAZAAR \u003c\/em\u003e* E! Online *\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eRefinery 29 * Bustle * Shondaland * Vulture * The Millions * Lit Hub * Electric Literature * Parade * MSN * and more!\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“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.” —\u003cem\u003eThe Skimm\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“[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\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCan we ever really escape our pasts?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYet 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSuspenseful, provocative, and compulsively readable,\u003cem\u003e The Divines \u003c\/em\u003eexplores 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 pasts.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“The Divines\u003c\/em\u003e is a scintillating coming-of-age story about the brutal bonds of female boarding school friendships, class prejudices, and the ways in which false memories can take the place of truth. Sephine is an unflinching and utterly convincing narrator. I lapped up every delicious detail.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSusie Yang, New York Times bestselling author of White Ivy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Shifting in time, this crisply written novel explores the universal human yearning to belong—and the terrible toll it can sometimes exact.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Skimm\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A potent novel about what it means to remember and how responsible we are for the actions of our youth. Seething with teenage sexuality, friendship and that peculiarly British obsession, class, this is an absorbing read.”  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAraminta Hall, author of Imperfect Women\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“All in all, \u003cem\u003eThe Divines\u003c\/em\u003e is a well-told story that hurtles towards a strangely satisfying conclusion.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlma, chosen as a Favorite Book for Winter 2021\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Eaton's debut combines three of my favorite things—boarding school, \"vicious\" teenage girls, and long-buried secrets that haunt for years.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLiterary Hub\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eThe Divines\u003c\/em\u003e is a cool, chilling and elegant novel that intrigues and compels the reader, while filleting the absurdities of British class hierarchy with a very, very sharp knife. In Eaton's stylish and controlled prose, the oppressive atmosphere of a girls' boarding school becomes the site of a violent and mysterious act, but also a lens through which to examine the intoxicating and unnerving power of adolescent sexuality, the dangers and consolations of friendship, and the toxic nature of the class divide. It's a terrific, entertaining and astute work and one of considerable relevance to the way we live now.”  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSarah Perry, Internationally bestselling author of The Essex Serpent and Melmoth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“At times both sharp and haunting, this novel embodies the awkwardness and regret of adolescence.... A layered and complex debut.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A provocative meditation on our obsession with youth—including our own—and an exploration into the power and perversity of teenage girls, \u003cem\u003eThe Divines\u003c\/em\u003e is perfectly twisted in its reflection of an utterly toxic environment, making it impossible to put down till you get to its end.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRefinery 29\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“In this captivating debut novel, Ellie Eaton traces adolescent female sexuality, class divides, and the weight of formative memories on adults.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eVulture, New York Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eThe Divines\u003c\/em\u003e is an excellently written book that will suck you into its storyline. I loved each and every one of the characters and the author did an exemplary job of developing each one. A must-read for fans of the movies Heathers and Mean Girls.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"An exploration of the destructive relationships between teenage girls at an entirely toxic and secluded boarding school. What more could you want?\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eParade\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[M]eticulously plotted.... A crumbling all-female boarding school becomes the scene of a tragedy when its privileged students turn against one another in this captivating debut.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A new mother tries to reconcile her former ‘mean girl’ past at a shuttered boarding school in this riveting and darkly comic addition to the campus novel canon. \u003cem\u003eThe Divines\u003c\/em\u003e is as provocative and daring as teenagerhood, itself.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCourtney Maum, author of Touch and Costalegre\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eThe Divines \u003c\/em\u003eis an absorbing, sharp exploration of the ways our adolescent secrets, relationships, and cruelties shape and haunt us into adulthood.\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eEllie Eaton's writing is\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003ethrilling and intoxicating, whether about the inexplicable power teenage girls have over one another or the challenges of defining a self outside of long-held traditions. A compulsively readable book; I couldn't put it down.”  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlexandra Chang, author of Days of Distraction\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[An] intelligent debut… Eaton does a good job describing class tension and the misery of trying to fit into a social clique as a teenager. Josephine’s steady unraveling of her teenage dramas will keep readers riveted.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“’Girls are vicious’, a character in \u003cem\u003eThe Divines\u003c\/em\u003e says towards the end, and Ellie Eaton has given us every ounce of that viciousness, meticulously portioned and weighed, the pain of it held up to the light. Seductive and uncomfortable in equal measure, the real raw strange runs through this book, that indigestible part of the human experience we all choke on from time to time.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRufi Thorpe, author of The Knockout Queen and The Girls from Corona Del Mar\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e“From the very first page, \u003cem\u003eThe Divines\u003c\/em\u003e throws the reader headfirst into the crucible of adolescent girlhood, in all its insecurity and entitlement, brittle vulnerability and callous cruelty. Eaton turns a keen eye toward class, privilege, and trauma, but this novel is above all a ruthlessly compassionate exploration of the stories we tell ourselves about the past—our drive to assuage our regrets, even as we are reluctant to reckon with their repercussions. A confident, nuanced, impeccably paced debut.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMicah Nemerever, author of These Violent Delights\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Twisty and twisted, \u003cem\u003eThe Divines\u003c\/em\u003e is exquisitely paced—a haunting novel about identity, the cruelties of youth, and the blurry line between nostalgia and obsession. In precise, lacerating detail, Eaton weaves two worlds together: one built around the odd rituals, brutal logic, and savage social structures put forth by a group of teen girls; the other centered on the traumatic implications of growing up privileged but unsupervised, elite but lonely, cut off from one’s desire. This is a blistering, brilliant debut.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKimberly King Parsons, author of Black Light\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[G]ripping...Jumping between modern-day Los Angeles and 1990s Britain, \u003cem\u003eThe Divines\u003c\/em\u003e examines destructive bonds and lingering traumas.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eE! Online\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A fierce, stunning debut that you won’t so much read as burn through. Eaton captures all the time honored trapdoors of late girlhood that we know firsthand to be real, but in her wildly talented hands they feel brand new and completely fascinating.”  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCaroline Zancan, author of We Wish You Luck\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"William Morrow","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44889387827429,"sku":"NP9780063012196","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780063012196.jpg?v=1730231139","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-divines-a-novel-isbn-9780063012196","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}