Girlhood

I enjoyed this book right from the start. Cat Clarke built the suspense throughout the whole book, which made me constantly want to know what happened next.Harper goes to boarding school in hope of a fresh start after the death of her sister, Jenna. When Kirsty joins the school a new friendship starts to form between the girls.I was constantly suspicious of Kirsty and did guess a few things but there were still a few surprises for me.Harper is a troubled teen trying to deal with her grief and guilt over her sisters death, this made me feel for Harper and I warmed to her character very quickly.This is the last book by Cat Clarke that I had left to read until she writes another. I am sad to have finished it. I have thoroughly enjoyed all of Cat's books.

I am always a fan of a YA book that doesn't have a romance as friendships (particularly female friendships) are possibly the most important relationships in our teenage years, far more than romances, and they do have a great impact in later life. This 'throwback' to boarding school stories intensifies the relationships and offers a fantastic look at how consuming friendships can be. Also brilliant to have LGBT representation without it being a massive overriding theme.

I LOVE THIS BOOK! I probably read this book faster than any others! It’s really gripping and very well written-it was the first Cat Clarke book i’ve read and now i’ve read them all!

This book is one of the best I have read. The storyline is gripping and you really feel like you are living the book.It has just the right balance of seriousness, humour and friendship. The friendship between the girls in this book really reflects friendship in real life.I loved this book and couldn't put it down 👍

I loved this book about friendship, grief and secrets. I really enjoyed the writing of the characters and the setting.

loved the friendship in this book usually like books that dont involve too much romance. i would absolutely love it if you wrote another book with these characters

I really enjoyed reading this. I got through it in 2 days!

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Als ich das Buch zu Ende gelesen hatte, war ich erleichtert, dass die ganze Tragik der Geschichte sich aufgelöst und sie ein gutes Ende gefunden hat. Jedoch fiel es mir die ganze Zeit schwer, mich überhaupt mit der Geschichte und ihrem Set-up anzufreunden. Es fehlt an Gewöhnlichkeit. Ein Internat mit Mädchen aus reichen Elternhäusern, der Tod der Zwillingsschwester der Hauptcharakterin und die unkonventionellen Hintergründe der Charaktere. Und trotz der Ungewöhnlichkeit der Dinge geht es an sich um eine ganz einfache Sache: Freundschaft unter Mädchen - allerdings mit einem unangenehmen Beigeschmack. Dieser Beigeschmack ist von der Autorin zwar sicher so gewollt und löst sich am Ende auch auf, dies ändert jedoch nichts an der Tatsache, dass das Buch meinen Geschmack einfach nicht getroffen hat, da es mir zu realitätsfern ist.

A group of girls, two of them very queer, going to an expensive boarding school, the main character trying to deal with the loss of her sister along with the guilt because she thinks it's her fault her sister died in first place? Let me tell you, this book gave me the goosebumps.Meet Harper, a bisexual girl who recently lost her twin sister and best friend Jenna because of anorexia. All she wants to do is escape the guilt she feels because of the role she played in Jenna's death and so she decides to go to a boarding school, forming this unquestionable friendship with a group of girls, her roommate is a proud lesbian called Rowan. She can count on her and her other friends, she tries to live a normal life but then a new girl shows up who can give her something the other girls can't:Kirsty has lost a sister too. She knows how it feels like to be left behind when a part of your soul suddenly leaves your life. But something is really off with Kirsty.Kirsty likes to show up where Harper is, their lives are absolutely alike in so many, too many ways and while Harper tries to be there for Kirsty, help her with the problems (and lies), Harper drifts away from her usual girl squad, away from Rowan and away from herself.It's hard to go into more details without spoiling it all but at some point there was a shotgun and I was so scared for something awful to happen. While I wanted Harper and Rowan to become a thing, it also was quite refreshing to not have a romance in a YA book for once. Still, I wouldn't mind a novella about them being happily in love finally, they truly deserve each other.Something I didn't like about the book was the length of it. Even though it was 'only' around 350 pages, it dragged a little at points. I absolutely loved how fierce Rowan was and loved her pro queer and pro feminism speeches so much more than I thought I would.If you're looking for a dark but also funny book and like to discover secrets of very vivid and well written characters this book is your must read. I enjoyed most of it even if sometimes it was a bit long-winded.

I will read anything by this author.Great book !I really enjoyed this book. It will be a great read aloud book for the grade 7/8 kids at school.

I love Cat Clarke but Girlhood was a little disappointing... It was good but not my favorite. Torn was amazing 😍

This story was so entirely gripping that I couldn't stop reading. That's a rare quality in a book, so I would absolutely recommend it to anyone!