Dimensions
162 x 236 x 30mm
A Novel.
In 1965, inspired by 'Huckleberry Finn', a dozen young college girls made the headlines when they sailed a homemade raft down the Mississippi River. Thirty-four years later, four of those college friends, now in their fifties, reunite to sail the river again.
This time, however, it's on a luxury cruiseboat and there are no headlines. And, this time, when they reach the end they'll be scattering the ashes of one of their friends.
There's Harriet Holding, a hesitant teacher who has never married; Catherine Wilson, a sculptor suffocating in her happy third marriage; Courtney Gray, struggling to reinvent her life; and Anna Todd, a world-famous romance novelist escaping her own tragedies through her fiction. And finally there is Baby, the girl they come to bury - along with their memories of her rebellions and betrayals.
Funny, sexy and wise, 'The Last Girls' is wonderful reading. It's also wonderfully revealing of women's lives - of romance, memory and desire, and of negotiating the journey from "girls" to "women".
