What Girls Learn
Published on 7. May 1998
Book
Paperback/Softback
352 pages
978-1-86049-438-3 (ISBN)
Description
Moving, funny and intensely affecting, WHAT GIRLS LEARN is a novel of love and loss and the demons teenagers must confront in order to grow up. At its centre are two sisters, Tilden - bookish and wise beyond her years - and Elizabeth, blonde, popular - an emotional chameleon. Both long to know more about their beautiful flighty mother who is part rule-making tyrant, part hopeless romantic. A woman whose complex relationships with men remain a mystery. Or at least they did...'WHAT GIRLS LEARN is a book I have longed for my whole life. Karin Cook reveals the awful secrets of girlhood in exhilarating, totally original prose. She has an ear - for language, for truth, for dailiness, for sorrow - like no other contemporary writer I know. - STEPHANIE GRANT, author of THE PASSION OF ALICE.
Reviews / Votes
'WHAT GIRLS LEARN is by turns wry, heartbreaking and wise. This is a novel mothers and daughters should read together ...I loved it' KAYE GIBBONS 'A bold account of the effect of arbitrary theft of life from those we love, and how we can never be ready for it' MARY LOUDON, THE TIMES 'She combines lingering childish emotions with mature perceptions in this piquant tale that refuses to wallow in sentimentality' SOPHIE GORMAN, IRISH INDEPENDENT 'She writes with an easy and original grace' FAY WELDONMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Little, Brown Book Group
Dimensions
Height: 197 mm
Width: 126 mm
Weight
280 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-86049-438-3 (9781860494383)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Karin Cook is a graduate of Vassar and earned her MA from New York University. She is currently Development Associate at The Door, an internationally renowned youth centre in New York.