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2000s: How well can you really ever know and trust your neighbours?
The Girls
What you need to know before your trail
It seems the ideal place to live – a garden oasis in the middle of London, unheard of really. A picturesque communal garden square, an oasis of sorts where your children run free, in and out of other people’s houses, playing in the vast urban space. Surrounded by houses and neighbours, what safer place could there be?
When a thirteen year old girl is found unconscious in a dark corner of the garden square on the night of a neighbourhood party, it seems as if there is someone close by who isn’t who they seem.
Travel Guide
Virginia Terrace and Virginia Crescent are sadly not real places as despite the events in the book, it does seem a lovely place to live. Neighbours all around, a communal and very large garden with areas such as the Rose Garden, the jungle and a playground. It’s the ideal spot to have a party where everyone can just mill around, have a drink or two, chat into the early hours whilst the kids play safely outside.
But this garden is claustrophobic too large to really keep an eye on your children and too dangerous to be a thirteen year old girl when you’re lost in the apparent safety of your ‘playground’
Clare like any of he mums can stand at her back gate and wait for the children to come wandering home. Life is better here than in her last home, the last home where they were forced to leave and are still reeling from the consequences. This home is much safer, the people much nicer.
Claire’s mum however warns her that the garden might not be all it seems – the size and the fact she doesn’t know everyone in the numerous flats surrounding it. But she trusts her new life and friends and this trust turns into nagging suspicious and doubt as the net curtains come down and the gloves come off.
Booktrail Boarding Pass Information: The Girls
Destination: London Departure Time: 2000s
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