{"product_id":"the-beloved-girls-9781472271419b","title":"The Beloved Girls","description":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eBY SUMMER'S END, THERE WILL BE ONLY ONE . . .\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003e'It's a funny old house. They have this ceremony every summer . . . There's an old chapel, in the grounds of the house. Half-derelict. The Hunters keep bees in there. Every year, on the same day, the family processes to the chapel. They open the combs, taste the honey. Take it back to the house. Half for them -' my father winced, as though he had bitten down on a sore tooth. 'And half for us.'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCatherine, a successful barrister, vanishes from a train station on the eve of her anniversary. Is it because she saw a figure - someone she believed long dead? Or was it a shadow cast by her troubled, fractured mind?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe answer lies buried in the past.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt lies in the events of the hot, seismic summer of 1989, at Vanes - a mysterious West Country manor house - where a young girl, Jane Lestrange, arrives to stay with the gilded, grand Hunter family, and where a devastating tragedy will unfold. Over the summer, as an ancient family ritual looms closer, Janey falls for each member of the family in turn. And she and Kitty, the eldest daughter of the house, will forge a bond that decades later, is still shaping the present . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'We need the bees to survive, and they need us to survive. Once you understand that, you understand the history of Vanes, you understand our family.'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e'Bewitching, beguiling and utterly beautiful, \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eThe Beloved Girls\u003c\/span\u003e will pull you into their mysterious and enchanted world and never let you go. With a cast of compelling characters and a labyrinthine plot, it's a page-turner of the most luxurious kind - a real escape.' VERONICA HENRY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCompelling, immersive and luxurious, THE BELOVED GIRLS is the outstanding new novel from the \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/span\u003e Top Ten bestselling author of \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eThe Garden of Lost and Found\u003c\/span\u003e and your perfect summer escape.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Headline Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42822977224784,"sku":"9781472271419B","price":8.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9781472271419-l.jpg?v=1785890345","url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/en-ca\/products\/the-beloved-girls-9781472271419b","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}