| Publisher |
Bloomsbury Circus |
| ISBN-13 |
9781408876732 |
| ISBN-10 |
9781408876732 |
| Binding |
Paperback |
| Number of Pages |
352 Pages |
| Language |
(English) |
| Dimensions (Cms) |
21.5 x 3.4 x 13.5 |
| Weight (grms) |
370 |
Narrative reportage at its best. Just extraordinary' Fatima Bhutto A masterly and agenda-setting inquest into how the deaths of two teenage girls shone a light into the darkest corners of a nation Katra Sadatgani. A tiny village in western Uttar Pradesh. A community bounded by tradition and custom; where young women are watched closely, and know what is expected of them. It was an ordinary night when two girls, Padma and Lalli, went missing. The next day, their bodies were found - hanging in the orchard, their clothes muddied. In the ensuing months, the investigation into their deaths would implode everything that their small community held to be true, and instigated a national conversation about sex, honour and violence. The Good Girls returns to the scene of Padma and Lalli's short lives and shocking deaths, daring to ask: what is the human cost of shame?
Sonia Faleiro
"Sonia Faleiro is the author of The Good Girls: An Ordinary Killing (2021), now available from Grove Atlantic, Bloomsbury UK, Penguin Random House India and Penguin Random House Canada. The New York Times said, ""The Good Girls is transfixing."" A second review in the paper called it ""gorgeous."" The Wall Street Journal called The Good Girls a ""riveting, sometimes astonishing work of forensic journalism."" And The Financial Times described it as ""a gripping real life mystery.""
Sonia is also the author of Beautiful Thing: Inside the Secret World of Bombay's Dance Bars, which was named a book of the year by the Guardian, Observer, Sunday Times, Economist, NPR and Time Out, and a novella, The Girl.
Her writing has received support from the Pulitzer Centre and The Investigative Fund, and appears in The New York Times, The Financial Times, Harper's, Granta, 1843, The California Sunday Magazine, and MIT Technology Review.
Sonia is the founder of the literary mentorship program South Asia Speaks, and the co-founder of Deca, a global cooperative of award-winning journalists.
She lives in London and is represented by The Wylie Agency."
Sonia Faleiro
Bloomsbury Circus