Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC ISBN: 9781408876725 Number of pages: 352 Weight: 476 g Dimensions: 216 x 135 mm MEDIA REVIEWS The Good Girls returns to the scene of Padma and Lalli's short lives and shocking deaths, daring to ask: what is the human cost of shame? In the ensuing months, the investigation into their deaths would implode everything that their small community held to be true, and instigated a national conversation about sex, honour and violence. The next day, their bodies were found - hanging in the orchard, their clothes muddied. It was an ordinary night when two girls, Padma and Lalli, went missing. A community bounded by tradition and custom where young women are watched closely, and know what is expected of them. 'A page-turner, a feminist text, and an essential read that is deeply empathetic' Deepa Anappara, author of Djinn Patrol on the Purple LineĪ masterly and agenda-setting inquest into how the deaths of two teenage girls shone a light into the darkest corners of a nation
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