Amanda Coe
Like Lionel Shriverâ€™s ,We Need to Talk About Kevin, and Donna Tarttâ€™s ,The Little Friend,, this gripping novel pulls you toward its unimaginable climax and will leave you haunted and heartbroken.,Spoiled but emotionally neglected Gemma, who seems to have everything, and semi-feral Pauline, who has less than nothing, are two very different ten-year-old girls growing up in a tough Yorkshire town in the 1970s. Pauline longs for the simple luxuries of Gemmaâ€™s life: her neatly folded socks and her clean hair. Gemma, upset by her parentâ€™s breakup, loses herself in fantasies of meeting the child television star Lallie. When Lallie shoots a movie in their hometown, Gemma and Pauline grab the chance for their wildest dreams to come true. But the film becomes a terrible catalyst for the larger forces acting on the two girls, a dysfunctional adult world that trickles down to the children; and playground bullying escalates, with dreadful consequences.
Fiction,Drama,Mystery,Mystery,Crime,Contemporary,European Literature,British Literature,Young Adult,Coming Of Age,Womens,Thriller,Suspense
What They Do in the Dark