The New Girl

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In a small town in New Zealand, lifelong friends, Rachel, Julia and Chicky, are celebrating the end of school, enjoying the liminal space of the summer holidays before their lives will be transformed by university, careers and adulthood.

The arrival of Miranda, an exotically beautiful and charismatic woman, will have a profound effect on the ostensibly concrete bond between the girls, revealing long-ignored cracks in their friendships.

In The New Girl, Emily Perkins employs her sharp wit and incisive eye to demonstrate the profoundly destructive effects of resentment, mistrust and lies.

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Perkins has a wonderfully light touch; she is a master of dialogue and plain speech, a casual Carver for our times * Observer *
Perkinss restrained, uninflected prose is ideally suited to this quietly powerful tale of growing up the strength of the characters still there, marooned by their own fears and haunted memories, ensures that their possible fates remain in our imagination long after the last page is turned * Guardian *
A rites-of-passage tale from a pen as sharp and precise as a scalpel * Wendy Holden *

Author Bio

Emily Perkins is the author of a prize-winning collection of short stories, Not Her Real Name, and four novels, including Novel About My Wife (winner of the NZ Book Award and the Believer Magazine Book of the Year, The Forrests (longlisted for the Womens Prize for Fiction) and Lioness (winner of the Ockham NZ Prize for Fiction). Her work for stage and screen includes co-writing the film adaptation of Eleanor Cattons novel The Rehearsal (dir. Alison Maclean), an adaptation of Ibsens A Dolls House, and the original play The Made. She lives in New Zealand.