From the prize-winning author of The Giant Dark comes a beautiful exploration of the ties that bind us and the scars they leave when they break.
Aliyah and Ava arrive in England from opposite corners of the world with dreams built upon Emily Brontë, Brideshead Revisited and Richard Curtis films. Instead, in the shadow of their historic, fairytale campus, they get the sense that they don't belong. The two form a Vita-and-Virginia-like bond, building a world full of stories that they write together. For a time, they are inseparable in their identity as 'strange girls'. When the end of university looms, they will have to return to the world where a devotion like this seems impossible to maintain.
Years later, Aliyah has everything Ava wants - a room of her own and a publishing deal - and, worse, the thing Ava was certain neither of them had ever wanted: a sensible doctor husband. Arriving back in London for a mutual friend's hen party, Ava is desperate to unpack the truth of what she really meant to Aliyah.
Was what they had - whatever you call it - real?
And what will become of the stories they tell themselves about one another?
| ISBN: | 9780349703114 |
| Publication date: | 12th March 2026 |
| Author: | Sarvat Hasin |
| Publisher: | Dialogue Books an imprint of John Murray Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 368 pages |
| Primary Genre | Modern and Contemporary Fiction |
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From the prize-winning author of The Giant Dark comes a beautiful exploration of the ties that bind us and the scars they leave when they break.
Aliyah and Ava arrive in England from opposite corners of the world with dreams built upon Emily Brontë, Brideshead Revisited and Richard Curtis films. Instead, in the shadow of their historic, fairytale campus, they get the sense that they don't belong. The two form a Vita-and-Virginia-like bond, building a world full of stories that they write together. For a time, they are inseparable in their identity as 'strange girls'. When the end of university looms, they will have to return to the world where a devotion like this seems impossible to maintain.
Years later, Aliyah has everything Ava wants - a room of her own and a publishing deal - and, worse, the thing Ava was certain neither of them had ever wanted: a sensible doctor husband. Arriving back in London for a mutual friend's hen party, Ava is desperate to unpack the truth of what she really meant to Aliyah.
Was what they had - whatever you call it - real?
And what will become of the stories they tell themselves about one another?
Strange Girls features in the following genres: Literary Fiction, Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Modern and Contemporary romance, Contemporary lifestyle fiction
Strange Girls is available in Paperback, Hardback
Strange Girls was written by Sarvat Hasin and published by Dialogue Books an imprint of John Murray Press
Strange Girls has 368 pages
£18.00
