In summer, and particularly when the wind blows south-west across the lawn, the sceptic tank gives out a strong stench… `Oh, it is a body,` the girls say. `We have a body in there. No one you know. It decomposes, of course, but so slowly one quite despairs.`
In their lovely, quiet Cotswolds village, Janet and Susan are known to the villagers simply as `the girls`. Partners in love and work, co-proprietors of a picturesque shop, they lead an enviable, enviably settled life.
But when a moment of small, surprising passion intrudes into the equilibrium of their world, the girls` lives take a deeply unsettling turn. First comes motherhood. Then comes murder.
Part-macabre comedy, part-crime thriller, part-cosy romance, John Bowen`s The Girls is a novel like none other. Told with warmth, affection and fun, yet laced with darkness and unease, 'the girls' will ensure you never look on Middle England quite so quaintly again.
`Absolutely wicked` Armistead Maupin
`Startlingly offbeat` Gore Vidal
`[For] people who like Myra Breckinridge as well as Miss Marple fans of Beryl Bainbridge, Russell Greenan and Patricia Highsmith those who feel Barbara Pym-ish on some days and Stephen King-ish on others . . . The Girls charms us as only certain tales `of village life` can` Washington Post
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