{"product_id":"girls-burn-brighter-9780349006840","title":"Girls Burn Brighter","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e''A treat for Ferrante fans, exploring the bonds of friendship and how female ambition beats against the strictures of poverty and patriarchal societies'' \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHuffington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn electrifying debut novel - the story of the unbreakable bond between two girls driven apart, and their journeys across continents to find each other again.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePoornima and Savitha, born in poverty, have known little kindness in their lives until they meet as teenagers. When an act of devastating cruelty drives Savitha away, Poornima leaves behind everything she has ever known to find her friend.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlternating between the girls'' perspectives as they face apparently insurmountable obstacles on their travels through the darkest corners of India''s underworld and across an ocean, \u003ci\u003eGirls Burn Brighter\u003c\/i\u003e introduces two heroines who refuse to lose the hope that burns within.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e'Girls Burn Brighter\u003c\/i\u003e by Shobha Rao blew my heart up. Heart-shards everywhere. I am in awe of the warmth and humanity in this book, even as it explores some incredibly dark places. I'm going to be thinking about \u003ci\u003eGirls Burn Brighter\u003c\/i\u003e for a while, and you're going to be hearing a lot about it' -- Charlie Jane Anders, author of All the Birds in the Sky\u003cbr\u003eBurns with intensity . . . [Rao] is clearly a writer of great ambition * USA Today *\u003cbr\u003eA searing portrait of what feminism looks like in much of the world * Vogue *\u003cbr\u003eShobha Rao writes cleanly and eloquently about women who, without their brightness, might have been left to die in their beds. She writes them into life, into existence, into the light of day * Los Angeles Times *\u003cbr\u003eRao evokes the landscape of poverty with great skill . . . this is a timely portrayal of human traffi cking, cultural misogyny and the battles still fought every day by millions of women worldwide -- Hannah Beckerman * Observer *\u003cbr\u003eElegant and eloquent . . . this emotionally devastating story is at times almost too harrowing to read -- Eithne Farry * Mail on Sunday *","brand":"Little, Brown Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48884010942807,"sku":"9780349006840","price":9.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780349006840.jpg?v=1722530026","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/girls-burn-brighter-9780349006840","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}