Longlisted for theCWA ALCS Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction 2022
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 Sadatganj.
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
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCISBN: 9781408876763Number of pages: 352Weight: 280 gDimensions: 198 x 129 mm
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'Sonia Faleiro's meticulously researched investigation results in a powerful,unflinching account of misogyny,female shame and the notion of honour'- Observer
'Faleiro's pithy,cliffhanging chapters fuse true crime with big-picture analysis,blending data with interviews and detail... A powerful indictment of a society failing its most vulnerable members'-Economist
'At once shocking and mundane,quiet and loud,understated and savage'- Times Literary Supplement
'Transfixing; it has the pacing and mood of a whodunit,but no clear reveal'-New York Times
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