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  • The Divines

  • A Novel
  • Auteur(s): Ellie Eaton
  • Narrateur(s): Imogen Church
  • Durée: 11 h et 18 min
  • 3,7 out of 5 stars (9 évaluations)

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The Divines

Auteur(s): Ellie Eaton
Narrateur(s): Imogen Church
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“For when you want a coming-of-age novel with a dark twist. In this provocative novel, the past isn’t always as far away as you think.” (The Skimm)

“[S]o beautifully written that I marked lines - for their perceptive genius - on nearly every page.... This perfectly paced novel examines class structures and sexual identity and betrayals and tragedy in a way that had be both wanting to rip through the pages and wanting to savor each sentence until the extremely satisfying end." (Elin Hilderbrand for Literati)

Can we ever really escape our pasts?

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 30s, the years at St John were a lifetime ago. She hasn’t spoken to another Divine in 15 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 thoroughly enjoyable, The Divines explores the tension between the lives we lead as adults and the experiences that form us, probing us to consider how our memories as adults compel us to reexamine our pasts.

©2021 Ellie Eaton (P)2021 HarperCollins Publishers

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Over-the-Top Mean Girls: An Unrealistic Portrayal

There is much to be said about the destructive power of female bullying, but it’s not achieved here. In this novel, there is not one likeable female character; if a book ever needed an independent character who is not a victim or perpetrator, this one did. Such a character would have provided some much-needed balance and authenticity in an otherwise unrealistic tale of rampant, unrelenting cruelty. There is such a lack of nuance in the characterizations that I expected every female in Jo’s circle to be nothing but cruel, abusive, and horribly entitled. With the exception of Gerry, not one strayed from the mean girl persona which made the story predictable and unrealistic.

The adults don’t fare much better. The teachers are portrayed as powerless and ineffective, the ‘Divine’ parents as shallow snobs, and in the case of town residents, they’re consistently bitter and angry.

If this novel is meant to be a tale of redemption, it falls short. Jo is an unreliable narrator; I don’t think this narration device achieves what the author intended. Although we’re given a few hints near the end, there is no ‘big reveal’ of the real Jo- just the steady monologue of a self absorbed, narcissistic personality. She remains stubbornly and bizarrely oblivious to how she acted as a Divine, dedicated to seeing herself as a victim right to the end.

And as for the rest of the girls, not one character expresses any awareness of their collective cruelty. With the exception of Gerry, some nuance and diverse characterizations would have made this story less gothic and more real.

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takes you back to your teenage years

I really like the book, made me remember about teenage friendships and how emotional can the be

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