Simone St. James’s Broken Girls is an acute psychological gothic novel and crime drama about the impossibility of the future if the past is not dealt with.
Idlewild Hall has always been a dark place. In the 1950s, it housed a boarding school for troubled girls — troublemakers, illegitimate, with developmental disabilities. It was rumored that a ghost lived in it, and the locals preferred to bypass it. The boarding school was closed after the mysterious disappearance of a pupil, one of four close friends.
Almost half a century later, the girl’s body was found near an abandoned building. The guy she was dating was accused of her murder and subsequently convicted. Twenty years later, a terrible find during work on the reconstruction of Idlewild Hall connects these two tragic events and leads to terrible secrets of an even more distant past.
Press about the book:
«A story of friendship, place and redemption, both a crime drama and a gothic novel — Broken Girls is one of those books that are read voraciously.»
Associated Press
«A chilling story with sinister secrets and ghosts from the past … I was her hostage until dawn.»
Fiona Bartoln, author of the bestselling books The Widow and The Child
Copyright © 2018 Simone Seguin
© Edition in Russian, translation into Russian, design.
Sinbad Publishing House, 2019.
Recorded by VIMBO recording studio
© & ℗ Audio Publishing House VIMBO, 2020
Producers: Vadim Bukh, Mikhail Litvakov
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