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Ruminating on the past, Josephine becomes obsessed with her teenage identity and the forgotten girls of her one-time orbit. The visit provokes blurry recollections of those doomed final weeks that rocked the community. Yet now Josephine inexplicably finds herself returning to her old stomping grounds.

She hasn’t spoken to another Divine in fifteen years, not since the day the school shuttered its doors in disgrace. For Josephine, now in her thirties, the years at St John were a lifetime ago. They were fiercely loyal, sharp-tongued, and cuttingly humorous in the way that only teenage girls can be. The girls of St John the Divine, an elite English boarding school, were notorious for flipping their hair, harassing teachers, chasing boys, and chain-smoking cigarettes. 'A c ool, chilling and elegant novel' Sarah Perry, author of The Essex Serpent 'Perfectly twisted. With the emotional power of My Dark Vanessa and the reflective haze of The Girls, The Divines is a compulsive debut exploring the intoxicating, destructive relationships between teenage girls. But the more Josephine recalls, the further her life unravels, derailing not just her marriage and career, but her entire sense of self. With each memory that resurfaces, she circles closer to the ugly secret at the heart of the school's scandal. But an impromptu visit reawakens blurry recollections of those doomed final weeks that rocked the community. She hasn't spoken to another Divine in fifteen years, not since the day the school shut its doors in disgrace. But for Josephine, now in her thirties, her time at St.

They were fiercely loyal, sharp-tongued, and cutting in the way that only teenage girls can be. John the Divine, were notorious for flipping their hair, harassing teachers, chasing boys and chain-smoking cigarettes. The girls of elite English boarding school, St. Although that was at a time when being Divine meant something. My mother was Divine and her mother before that, which isn't uncommon. Set in the final days before a shocking tragedy forces an elite boarding school to shut its doors for good, Ellie Eaton's The Divines is a razor-sharp debut that asks the question: were you really as good as you remember? I am Divine.