The Flower Girls (Unabridged)
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3.9 • 116 Ratings
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- £12.99
Publisher Description
The most terrifyingly compelling thriller of 2019. You'll never forget the Flower Girls.
It's been 19 years since ten-year-old Laurel was given a life sentence and six-year-old Rosie was given a new identity.
The sisters were the very picture of innocence: two little girls who loved to listen to their mother's bedtime stories and play make-believe in the garden. But then an act of unparalleled horror tears their family apart, leaving Laurel behind bars.
Neither sister has laid eyes on the other since then, during which time their lives have followed very different paths. But now – with Laurel coming up for parole – they look set to be reunited in court, and the world will be watching …
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Alice Clark-Pratt’s The Flower Girls is one of the most compellingly dark thrillers we’d read in a while—and the audiobook only ratchets up the tension. Read in a chillingly beautiful, coiled fashion by Emilia Fox, we couldn’t bear to hit pause before its unforgettable climax. It centres around the legacy of a most awful case—a toddler being led away from a playground by a pair of teenage sisters who would become the titular national monsters. Nearly two decades later, one sister remains in prison but another is free under a new identify when a five-year-old goes missing from a hotel she’s staying in. The truth, as with most things in this shocking thriller, is tough to wrap your head around.
Customer Reviews
good but....
I did enjoy this.... however the twist was obvious from the start which was a shame.
A Good Book
I always find audiobooks from reviews on the hard copies as there seems to be more around. I loved this book, espeically with the amount of twists and turns towards the end.
Disappointing
I managed over 3 hours into this book but finally decided to give up. The many reviews online are very good, so I'm probably in a minority, but I found the writing lacked tension and the book dragged - too much descriptive writing about the characters' emotions, rather than allowing the reader/listener simply to develop understanding and empathy by him/herself. I'm afraid I also found the narration irritating - normal reading voice fine, but less successful in giving the individual characters different voices. Not for me, and I doubt I'll try another book by this author.