![]() ![]() Her daughter Maeve is officially in remission and can finally be a 'normal' teenager with the whole summer ahead of her. Twenty-four years later, Ruth, now a mother of three, moves her family into her now somewhat dilapidated childhood home following the death of her father. But by the end of the summer, real tragedy has found them. 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. 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. An intoxicating option for your next book club read, The Ophelia Girls is a visceral, heady exploration of desire, infatuation and the perils and power of being a young woman. ![]()
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