Kayla Maiuri The novel opens with a girl lying on the lawn of the school grounds, presumably dead. Intoxicating and provocative, at times deeply uncomfortable, The Divines is a novel that asks readers to confront parts of themselves they’ve tried to bury. As she reflects on her youth, the school’s scandalous history comes into view, including the heavy hand Josephine and the rest of The Divines played in its demise.Įaton, like Josephine, grew up in England and lives in Los Angeles, and is brilliantly attuned to the trickery of memory-the ways we reconstruct our pasts into renderings we can live with. John the Divine, an elite British boarding school for girls that has since closed its doors. The story is about reckoning with the past, as it moves between the protagonist Josephine’s current life in Los Angeles and her formative years at St. In her debut novel, The Divines (William Morrow & Company), Ellie Eaton delves into the complexity of female friendships and the way these relationships continue to shape and tug at us well into adulthood.
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