num_pages: 287
description: From the author of the bestselling Girls in Trucks a sad wry testament to the beauty and recklessness of youthThe city of Grifonia Italy is swarming with secretsthousands of years of dark murderous secrets. Taz a British student who has just arrived for her year abroad thinks that she will spend her time in Italy sipping wine and taking in the rolling Umbrian hills. But she soon falls in with a cabal of posh reckless girlsthe B4who turn her quaint fantasies into an erotic and dangerous rush through the darkest realms of friendship and love. Abroad is a chilling parable of modern girlhood from an author who from her opening line . . . grabs you and never lets go (People). Not since Donna Tartts The Secret History have we been treated to such an addictive tale of tumultuous adolescence. We see Taz scared and alone but hungry for new experience and piqued by the thrill of living abroad. We see her roommate the plainspoken American Claire who worries about Tazs motives and expresses sincere concern for her safetybut everything changes when they fall for the same man. And then theres what we dont seethe perils that lurk around the corner. We dont see the secrets that friendsand loverskeep from one another. And we dont see the force that is bigger than Taz bigger than her friends and loves a force that seems to be propelling them all toward a dark awful end. Inspired by real events but tackled with grace and sharpness by a master storyteller this is Katie Crouch at her finest.
language: English
title: Abroad
publisher: Sarah Crichton Books