"Secrets, abuse and murder at an exclusive boarding school sets the scene for this twisting dark academia thriller."
The Head Girl of prestigious High Hill Boarding School is found dead, but who is to blame? Rumours abound among the students. Rumours of relationships with teachers, drugs and bad blood. Twenty years later there are still ramifications following the events that occured on that dark night.
What I Told My Friends is a dark academia thriller following Chloe Carter, who wins a scholarship to a selective boarding school and attempts to reinvent herself through her music scholarship, desperate to escape the clouds of her past.
Told in ‘Before’ and ‘After’, the drip feed of information kept me on my toes and guessing, about the circumstances leading up to Emily’s death, the night in question and every moment after. Alice Leigh weaves a tangled web of dark themes: secrets, abuse, self-harm, blackmail, threats and murder to create a chilling thriller about how far you’ll go to protect the ones you love. A twisting tale that kept me riveted until the final page.
The prestigious boarding school attracted the brightest students. But that was before the head girl Emily Asbourne was found dead on the ground below the belltower.
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What I Told My Friends features in the following genres: General Fiction, Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Thriller and Suspense, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Narrative theme: Identity / belonging, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Narrative theme: Social issues, Thriller and Suspense, Fiction, Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Fiction: narrative themes, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Narrative theme: Identity / belonging, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Narrative theme: Social issues
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What I Told My Friends was written by Alice Leigh and published by Canelo Crime an imprint of Canelo
What I Told My Friends has 352 pages
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