Girls, The

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'An astounding new voice whose work mines the slippery regions between grief, sex, love, parents and children. This book is a rare find.' FELICITY CASTAGNA'A tender and heartfelt book, exploring the intricacies and long aftermath of trauma and grief with great frankness and directness. Its honest and exacting exploration of what happens to the body and the self in grief is deeply moving, without being excoriating, and the writing is both lyrical and tough - Higgins has a distinctive and accomplished voice, and this book is a beautiful achievement.' FIONA WRIGHT'An urgent, poetic and skinless howl of a book.' LEE KOFMANNIn 2007, Chloe Higgins was seventeen years old. She and her mother Rhonda stayed home so that she could revise for her HSCs while her two younger sisters Carlie and Lisa went skiing with their father. On the way back from their trip, their car veered off the highway, flipped four times and burst into flames. Both her sisters were killed. Their father walked away from the accident with only minor injuries. This book is about what happened next.