Coming from a marginalized and impoverished background, Tess has achieved the life of her dreams: a family, wealth and keeping up with the Jones," thanks to her husband's ancenstry and standing. Yet, there are a lot of secrets she is hiding from her husband and beloved son, Rudy. . . Secrets that are possibly tied to the death of a young girl her son has been seeing, secrets that have haunted her and her son's entire life, causing her to drop out of the school as a student and then return as a single mother with no explanations. As her life begins to spiral out of control, Tess is forced to make calculated decisions and to force everyone else to face the ugly truth that has long been kept hidden within the school about the mysteriously dead girls.
There were many elements I enjoyed about THE SEA OF LOST GIRLS by Carol Goodman, and one of my favorites includes the setting. I quickly became sucked in into the gothic-like atmosphere of Haywood, and the mysteries surrounding that institution became the icing on the cake in this novel. I also became enthralled by the way The Crucible by Arthur Miller and The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne were given a modern-day slant; instead of being obscure, these two particular texts acted as the crux for the shame women have felt.
The characters, their backstories, as well as the juggling act that Carol Goodman adapted within THE SEA OF LOST GIRLS quickly makes her an author whose books I will continue to read. THE SEA OF LOST GIRLS is simply not a standard tale of suspense and mystery, it is a tale that contains plenty of relevance and understanding towards modern day.
Writing a story that addresses the reasons the #MeToo era came into a being along with a backdrop of The Crucible and The Scarlet Letter is something that should best be handled by an author with a lot of experience and talent, which Carol Goodman has in spades and more. Goodman is capable of pulling off a delicate balance in THE SEA OF LOST GIRLS, knowing when to tantalize her audience with secrets and when to move on. She is also good at stringing readers along, keeping them desperate to learn the secrets that Tess holds tightly within her.
For a reader seeking a beautiful and engaging novel of a modern-day "witch hunt," as well as elements from old gothic novels, THE SEA OF LOST GIRLS will be the perfect fit to ponder past the closing pages.
In the tradition of Daphne du Maurier, Shari Lapena, and Michelle Richmond comes a new thriller from the bestselling author of The Lake of Dead Languages—a twisty, harrowing story set at a prestigious prep school in which one woman’s carefully hidden past might destroy her future.
Tess has worked hard to keep her past buried, where it belongs. Now she’s the wife to a respected professor at an elite boarding school, where she also teaches. Her seventeen-year-old son, Rudy, whose dark moods and complicated behavior she’s long worried about, seems to be thriving: he has a lead role in the school play and a smart and ambitious girlfriend. Tess tries not to think about the mistakes she made eighteen years ago, and mostly, she succeeds.
And then one more morning she gets a text at 2:50 AM: it’s Rudy, asking for help. When Tess picks him up she finds him drenched and shivering, with a dark stain on his sweatshirt. Four hours later, Tess gets a phone call from the Haywood school headmistress: Lila Zeller, Rudy’s girlfriend, has been found dead on the beach, not far from where Tess found Rudy just hours before.
As the investigation into Lila’s death escalates, Tess finds her family attacked on all sides. What first seemed like a tragic accidental death is turning into something far more sinister, and not only is Tess’s son a suspect but her husband is a person of interest too. But Lila’s death isn’t the first blemish on Haywood’s record, and the more Tess learns about Haywood’s fabled history, the more she realizes that not all skeletons will stay safely locked in the closet.
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