The Girls Are All So Nice Here
A Novel
(Sprache: Englisch)
Two former best friends return to their college reunion to find that they're being circled by someone who wants revenge for what they did ten years before-and will stop at nothing to get it-in this "propulsive" (Megan Miranda, bestselling author of The...
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Two former best friends return to their college reunion to find that they're being circled by someone who wants revenge for what they did ten years before-and will stop at nothing to get it-in this "propulsive" (Megan Miranda, bestselling author of The Girl from Widow Hills) psychological thriller.A lot has changed since Ambrosia Wellington graduated from college, and she's worked hard to create a new life for herself. But then an invitation to her ten-year reunion arrives in the mail, along with an anonymous note that reads, "We need to talk about what we did that night."
It seems Ambrosia's past-and the people she thoughts she'd left there-aren't as buried as she believed. Amb can't stop fixating on what she did or who she did it with: larger-than-life Sloane "Sully" Sullivan, Amb's former best friend, who could make anyone do anything.
At the reunion, Amb and Sully receive increasingly menacing messages, and it becomes clear that they're being pursued by someone who wants more than just the truth of what happened that first semester. This person wants revenge for what they did and the damage they caused-the extent of which Amb is only now fully understanding. And it was all because of the game they played to get a boy who belonged to someone else and the girl who paid the price.
Alternating between the reunion and Amb's freshman year, The Girls Are All So Nice Here is a "chilling and twisty" (Book Riot) "page-turner" (Entertainment Weekly) about the brutal lengths girls can go to get what they think they're owed, and what happens when the games we play in college become matters of life and death.
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Chapter 1: Now NOW
To: "Ambrosia Wellington" a.wellington@wesleyan.edu
From: "Wesleyan Alumni Committee" reunion.classof2007@gmail.com
Subject: Class of 2007 Reunion
Dear Ambrosia Wellington,
Mark Your Calendar!
The Wesleyan University Ten-Year Reunion for the Class of 2007 will take place May 25-28, 2017. Join us for a weekend of catching up with former classmates and attending exciting events, including the All-Campus Party and formal class dinners.
Online registration is available through May 1.
If you're planning to attend, a full list of area hotels can be found on Wesleyan's local accommodations page. A limited amount of on-campus housing in our dorms is available. Most rooms are doubles-perfect for reaching out to your old roommate to relive some memories!
Sincerely,
Your Alumni Committee
I delete it instantly, just like I do the sale emails from Sephora and Michael Kors and the reminders from Fertility Friend that ovulation is right around the corner. Then I empty my recycling bin, because I know better than to think anything is ever really gone.
Two weeks later, a second email arrives. We haven't received your RSVP! We really hope you're joining us. It's the written equivalent of a wagging finger. I delete that one, too, but not before scrolling down far enough to see her name, bolded, right under the list of Alumni Committee members. Flora Banning.
I forget about the two emails, because out of sight really is out of mind. It's easy when each day is a variation of the same-taking the N from Astoria to Midtown; stopping at Key Food for groceries, reusable cloth bags cutting into my forearms. Happy hour shouldered in with hipsters at the Ditty, a second glass of wine, despite Adrian's half-teasing Maybe you shouldn't. But then I come home from work on Friday, shoulders sagging from the weight of the week, and there's an envelope on the counter addressed to me.
"Hey, babe," Adrian shouts from his
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position on the couch, tablet in hand, where he's undoubtedly working on his fantasy football league instead of the perpetually unfinished novel he likes to talk about. "How was your day?"
"You left the door open again. Can you please start locking it like I asked?" One of the myriad things I nag Adrian about on a regular basis. Lock the door. Close the cereal bag. Pick up your dirty laundry. Sometimes I feel more like a parent than his wife.
"Relax. It's a safe building. Hey, something came for you. I think we got invited to a wedding. Except somebody doesn't know you got married and changed your name." My new last name, a point of male pride that Adrian pretended wasn't important to him. I don't care, but do you really want the kids to have two last names? And yours is so long, he said during wedding planning, the first puncture in my newly engaged bliss. The kids, a brightening certainty on his horizon, my concessions for them expected and inevitable.
The envelope on the counter is addressed to Ambrosia Wellington, in neat calligraphy. Not Ambrosia Turner, the woman I became three years ago when I walked down a tree-shaded aisle at the Mountain Lakes House toward Adrian, his eyes already tear filled. I let him think Turner was for us, for the kids. He has no idea why I was so eager to get rid of Wellington.
Adrian turns around to watch me open it, expectant. He loves weddings, or rather, he loves the receptions, where he can get drunk and pose for pictures with peop
"You left the door open again. Can you please start locking it like I asked?" One of the myriad things I nag Adrian about on a regular basis. Lock the door. Close the cereal bag. Pick up your dirty laundry. Sometimes I feel more like a parent than his wife.
"Relax. It's a safe building. Hey, something came for you. I think we got invited to a wedding. Except somebody doesn't know you got married and changed your name." My new last name, a point of male pride that Adrian pretended wasn't important to him. I don't care, but do you really want the kids to have two last names? And yours is so long, he said during wedding planning, the first puncture in my newly engaged bliss. The kids, a brightening certainty on his horizon, my concessions for them expected and inevitable.
The envelope on the counter is addressed to Ambrosia Wellington, in neat calligraphy. Not Ambrosia Turner, the woman I became three years ago when I walked down a tree-shaded aisle at the Mountain Lakes House toward Adrian, his eyes already tear filled. I let him think Turner was for us, for the kids. He has no idea why I was so eager to get rid of Wellington.
Adrian turns around to watch me open it, expectant. He loves weddings, or rather, he loves the receptions, where he can get drunk and pose for pictures with peop
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Autoren-Porträt von Laurie Elizabeth Flynn
Laurie Elizabeth Flynn is a former model who lives in London, Ontario, with her husband and four children. She is the author of three young adult novels-Firsts, Last Girl Lied To, and All Eyes on Her-under the name L. E. Flynn. Her nationally bestselling adult fiction debut, The Girls Are All So Nice Here, was named a USA TODAY Best Book of 2021 and has sold in eleven territories around the world.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Laurie Elizabeth Flynn
- 2022, 320 Seiten, Maße: 13,9 x 21,2 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Simon & Schuster US
- ISBN-10: 1982144637
- ISBN-13: 9781982144630
- Erscheinungsdatum: 28.04.2022
Sprache:
Englisch
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"The Girls Are All So Nice Here" kept me up all night - literally. I tore through the book in less than 24 hours, forcing my eyes to stay open as if the remaining pages wouldn't be there in the morning."-USA Today"A college reunion. A toxic friend group. Revenge. All the makings of a page-turner are here in Flynn's book." -Entertainment Weekly
"This chilling and twisty thriller centers on two former best friends who return to their alma mater for a college reunion. Once there, they quickly realize someone is targeting them for revenge for what they did ten years ago. Devastatingly dark and thrumming with tension, The Girls Are all So Nice Here offers a juicy, unflinching portrait of the complexities of friendship and social ambition."-Book Riot
"The story takes place in two alternating time periods: the freshman year for the girls of the story, and the ten-year reunion for the same bunch. Somewhere back in the early times but not revealed until much later, terrible things have happened on campus, and somebody's going to pay a penalty. Many secrets are withheld until late in the story, and while this is a familiar device, Flynn makes it work with special power by piling on the details in numbers and in specificity. Sex, betrayal, scheming - all come into play in dark and heavy loads. Is there someone to root for in all of this? Only at the reader's peril."-The Toronto Star
"A sharp, pitch-black thriller that takes the mean-girls trope to another level." -KIRKUS
"With The Girls Are All So Nice Here, Flynn takes the insecurities that come with being a young woman and sharpens them into a deadly point. I read open-mouthed as Amb navigated the complex social calculus of her worlds right up until that stinging kick of a final chapter left me breathless."-Chandler Baker, New York Times bestselling author of Whisper Network
"Laurie Flynn smartly examines the darker complexities of friendship, ambition,
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and social dynamics in this propulsive thriller. Full of twists and surprises, THE GIRLS ARE ALL SO NICE HERE reminds us that the past has a long reach, and secrets never stay buried forever. I couldn't stop reading until the shocking final twist!"-Megan Miranda, bestselling author of The Girl From Widow Hills
"Alternating between Amb's time at college and the present day, Flynn reveals the darkness girls are capable of, building toward a thrillingly unsettling ending."-Electric Literature
"Dark, twisted, and utterly gripping, THE GIRLS ARE ALL SO NICE explores the unparalleled cruelty of mean girls on a leafy college campus. This propulsive thriller has a killer ending to match its killer title."-Robyn Harding, bestselling author of The Swap
"THE GIRLS ARE ALL SO NICE HERE is twisted, compelling, and so very dark. This devastating story about the friends we keep-and those we don't-is surprising in the best possible way. Flynn's first adult fiction book makes me wonder what she'll come up with next."-Samantha Downing, USA Today bestselling author of My Lovely Wife and He Started It
Juicy, twisty, and relentlessly unsettling, THE GIRLS ARE ALL SO NICE HERE is more than a thriller; it's a masterful portrait of the complexities of female friendships and the raw yearning to fit in. With characters unflinchingly wrought in all their vulnerability and a setting so real, I felt I'd visited the Wesleyan campus myself, this book is a brilliant and wickedly wild ride. I couldn't put it down. -Andrea Bartz, bestselling author of The Lost Night and The
"Alternating between Amb's time at college and the present day, Flynn reveals the darkness girls are capable of, building toward a thrillingly unsettling ending."-Electric Literature
"Dark, twisted, and utterly gripping, THE GIRLS ARE ALL SO NICE explores the unparalleled cruelty of mean girls on a leafy college campus. This propulsive thriller has a killer ending to match its killer title."-Robyn Harding, bestselling author of The Swap
"THE GIRLS ARE ALL SO NICE HERE is twisted, compelling, and so very dark. This devastating story about the friends we keep-and those we don't-is surprising in the best possible way. Flynn's first adult fiction book makes me wonder what she'll come up with next."-Samantha Downing, USA Today bestselling author of My Lovely Wife and He Started It
Juicy, twisty, and relentlessly unsettling, THE GIRLS ARE ALL SO NICE HERE is more than a thriller; it's a masterful portrait of the complexities of female friendships and the raw yearning to fit in. With characters unflinchingly wrought in all their vulnerability and a setting so real, I felt I'd visited the Wesleyan campus myself, this book is a brilliant and wickedly wild ride. I couldn't put it down. -Andrea Bartz, bestselling author of The Lost Night and The
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