The Ophelia girls
Healey, Jane, 1986-2022
Book
In the summer of 1973, teenage Ruth and her four friends are obsessed with pre-Raphaelite paintings, and a little bit obsessed with each other. They spend the scorching summer days in the river by Ruth's grand family home, pretending to be the drowning Ophelia and recreating tableaus of other tragic mythical heroines. But by the end of the summer, real tragedy has found them.
Main title:
The Ophelia girls / Jane Healey.
Author:
Healey, Jane, 1986-, author
Work:
Imprint:
London : Pan Books, 2022.
Collation:
361 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: London: Mantle, 2021.
ISBN:
9781529014877 (pbk)
Dewey class:
823.92FICTION
Language:
English
BRN:
3218354