The Ophelia Girls

A mother’s secret past and her daughter’s present collide in this richly atmospheric novel from the acclaimed author of  The Animals at Lockwood Manor.   In the summer of 1973, Ruth and her four friends were obsessed with pre-Raphaelite paintings—and a little bit obsessed with each other. Drawn to the cold depths of the river by Ruth’s house, the girls pretend to be the drowning Ophelia, with increasingly elaborate tableaus. But by the end of that fateful summer, real tragedy