A mother\u2019s secret past and her daughter\u2019s present collide in this richly atmospheric novel from the acclaimed author of\u00a0<\/b>The Animals at Lockwood Manor.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
In the summer of 1973, Ruth and her four friends were obsessed with pre-Raphaelite paintings\u2014and a little bit obsessed with each other. Drawn to the cold depths of the river by Ruth\u2019s house, the girls pretend to be the drowning Ophelia, with increasingly elaborate tableaus. But by the end of that fateful summer, real tragedy finds them along the banks.<\/p>\n
Twenty-four years later, Ruth returns to the suffocating, once grand house she grew up in, the mother of young twins and seventeen-year-old Maeve. Joining the family in the country is Stuart, Ruth\u2019s childhood friend, who is quietly insinuating himself into their lives and gives Maeve the attention she longs for. She is recently in remission, unsure of her place in the world now that she is cancer-free. Her parents just want her to be an ordinary teenage girl. But what teenage girl is ordinary?<\/p>\n
Alternating between the two fateful summers,\u00a0The Ophelia Girls\u00a0<\/i>is a suspense-filled exploration of mothers and daughters, illicit desire, and the perils and power of being a young woman.<\/p>\n