Book review: The Girls

THIS much-anticipated debut novel of Emma Cline, already a well-regarded short story writer and fiction reader for the New Yorker, will probably get summarised a lot as ‘that Charles Manson novel’.

Sat, 09 Jul, 2016 - 01:00

Review: Dan Brotzel

Emma Cline

Chatto & Windus, £12.99; ebook, £7.99

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