Description
From the Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller Olivie Blake, this is a powerful and darkly-fun novel about ambition, lust and eating your fill - as wealthy moms and sorority girls practice a sinister new wellness trend . . .
Good girls deserve a treat.
Every member of The House, the most exclusive sorority on campus, and all its alumni, are beautiful, high-achieving and universally respected.
After a freshman year she would rather forget, sophomore Nina Kaur knows being one of the chosen few accepted into The House is the first step in her path to the brightest possible future. Once she's taken into their fold, the House will surely ease her fears of failure and protect her from those who see a young woman on her own as prey.
Meanwhile, adjunct professor Dr. Sloane Hartley is struggling to return to work after accepting a demotion to support her partner's new position at the cutthroat University. After 18 months at home with her newborn daughter, Sloane's clothes don't fit right, her girl-dad husband isn't as present as he thinks he is and even the few hours a day she's apart from her child fill her psyche with paralyzing ennui. When invited to be The House's academic liaison, Sloane enviously drinks in the way the alumnae seem to have it all, achieving a level of collective perfection that Sloane so desperately craves.
As Nina and Sloane each get drawn deeper into the arcane rituals of the sisterhood, they learn that living well comes with bloody costs. And when they are finally invited to the table, they will have to decide just how much they can stomach in the name of solidarity and power.
'Whip sharp, nuanced, and highly propulsive'
Hildur Knutsdottir, author of The Night Guest
'Truly brilliant . . . wickedly fun and deeply satisfying'
Ling Ling Huang, author of Natural Beauty and Immaculate Conception
'An exploration of the many hungers of the female heart'
Delilah S. Dawson, New York Times bestselling author of The Violence
About the Author
Olivie Blake is the internationally bestselling author of The Atlas Six, Alone With You in the Ether, One For My Enemy, Masters of Death, Januaries, Gifted & Talented and Girl Dinner. As Alexene Farol Follmuth, she is also the author of the young adult rom-coms Twelfth Knight and My Mechanical Romance. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and son.
Reviews
A book that whets your appetite before devouring you whole. Girl Dinner is cunning, charged and just as you're comfortable - a profound shock. Perfect for the era we live in -- Chloe Gong, New York Times bestselling author of Immortal Longings
Seriously, WHAT did I just read?! And when can I have seconds?! A brilliant head trip of a book, Olivie Blake constantly comes at timely topics from new and interesting angles. I can't wait to see what she does next! -- Katee Robert, New York Times bestselling author of Neon Gods
Girl Dinner is a crackling, tense journey between the ravenous teeth of feminine rage and sorority power struggles. Overflowing with creeping dread. I devoured it and loved every second -- Chuck Tingle, USA Today bestselling author of Bury Your Gays
A female-fueled tumbleweed of bloodthirsty seduction. A decadent dive into the dark depths of ambition and toxic relationships. Deliciously addictive -- A. R. Torre, New York Times bestselling author of The Good Lie
Whip sharp, nuanced and highly propulsive. I will be thinking about Girl Dinner for a long time -- Hildur Knutsdottir, author of The Night Guest
As always, Blake eats! Girl Dinner is truly brilliant - a precise and ruthless novel about the impossibility of being a woman and a mother, it also answers the question of what it takes to win when you start from a losing position. I savored every morsel of this wickedly fun and deeply satisfying interrogation of sisterhood, sorority life and the true cost of success -- Ling Ling Huang, author of Natural Beauty and Immaculate Conception
An exploration of the many hungers of the female heart and the pain behind the drive to be everything to everyone, Girl Dinner shaves pearls into teeth and bites deep. As a woman, as a mother, as a wife, as an artist - I felt this story in my bones -- Delilah S. Dawson, New York Times bestselling author of The Violence
Book Information
ISBN 9781035011421
Author Olivie Blake
Format Hardback
Page Count 368
Imprint Macmillan
Publisher Pan Macmillan
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