Ellie Eaton

'Intento recordar, entender qué clase de persona era entonces. Por qué nos odiaban tanto. De qué éramos culpables'. St. John the Divine, un elitista internado inglés sólo de chicas, cierra sus puertas definitivamente tras un escándalo que sacude por completo las vidas de las adolescentes que viven en él, pero sobre todo afecta a Josephine, quien, a sus treinta y tantos, no puede dejar de pensar de forma obsesiva en su vida en aquel internado ni lo que allí aconteció. Las divinas eran conocidas por la forma en la que se sacudían el pelo, por cómo hablaban de los chicos y por fumar sin parar. Andaban por las calles de Oxford cogidas del brazo y miraban por encima del hombro a los lugareños. Las divinas es una novela que indaga en el despertar y el poder sexual de las adolescentes, la división de clases, la búsqueda de identidad y las amistades que forjamos en esta etapa crucial de la vida, que nos influyen y moldean hasta convertirnos en quienes somos. Alternando su vida en la actualidad como adulta y su yo adolescente, Josephine revisará su pasado para buscar respuestas y enfrentarse a la persona que realmen

With the emotional power of Normal People and the reflective haze of The Girls, a magnetic novel that moves between present-day Los Angeles and a British boarding school in the 1990s, exploring the destructive relationships between teenage girls. Can we ever really escape our past? 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 is a scorching examination of the power of adolescent sexuality, female identity, and the destructive class divide. Exposing the tension between the lives we lead as adults and the experiences that form us, Eaton probes us to consider how our memories as adults compel us to reexamine our pasts.