The Shining Girls
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The jaw-dropping, page-turning, critically-acclaimed book of the year: a serial-killer thriller unlike any other from the award-winning Lauren Beukes. 'GONE GIRL has not exactly gone. But THE SHINING GIRLS have arrived' (The Times).
THE SHINING GIRLS is now streaming on Apple TV+, starring Elisabeth Moss and Jamie Bell
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This is the novel that brought South Africa’s Lauren Beukes international plaudits, and which was serialised for Apple TV.
But she writes speculative fiction, and this has an especially zany hook–a time-travelling serial killer–so why is this a historical novel? Beukes did deep research into several key periods in US history, bringing the “shining girls” of those eras alive in ways that are breathtakingly imaginative and entertaining.
In particular, her accounts of the black women who worked in shipyards during World War 2–and the middle-class women who operated “underground railways” for abortion in the 1960s–are heartbreakingly relevant in current times.…
From Helen's list on Historical novels by Southern African women.
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