Today I’m joining the blog tour for Them Girls. My review is written with thanks to Anne Cater for inviting me on the blog tour and to the publisher for my copy of the book.

Blurb:

Two sisters, a lifetime of secrets, and the chance to set the record straight…
Meet Goldie and Vee: sisters, dreamers, grafters. In their forties, both appear to have it all…

Until Goldie finds the courage to leave Benedict. Once upon a time their faux marriage worked, but when the magnetic Wolfie comes on the scene, her world of pretending falls apart.

Vee’s neat world is spiraling, too. Since her ex-husband Jamie started dating Julia her cruel school bully, Vee’s long-buried insecurities are out of control. She needs to get away, and fast.

So when Goldie suggests a holiday in France, Vee leaps at the idea. A curiously well-timed invitation – just as speculations around Goldie’s brilliantly brief pop career back in the nineties are beginning to resurface. Escaping’s one thing, but nothing stays secret forever, and as Vee and Goldie’s unresolved pasts make surprise returns, the stories them girls once told themselves begin to look very different…

A raw and real portrayal of two sisters, the lives they left behind and the lives they want to lead, Them Girls is bold and immediate and deals with themes of identity, class and the corruption of power . . .

Review:

I haven’t read Eva Verde’s previous work but I’ve heard a lot about it so I was excited to have the opportunity to read Them Girls. I was not disappointed: Eva Verde is a brilliant writer who tackles issues which are prevalent in society in a really thought provoking and meaningful way. 

The central characters of Them Girls are Goldie and Valeria and I love the way they are developed over the course of the novel – each with their own demons to fight and a fascinating back story. I didn’t warm to either of them straight away, but as their stories became clearer and I had a greater understanding of what they had both been through, I started to connect with them and root for them until the very end. Each chapter is written from the perspective of a different character, and this was a very effective way of helping me to understand what made the characters tick, particularly those in supporting roles, such as Jamie and Julia. 

Them Girls would probably be best described as a slow burning novel, which is unlike the usual novels I read, but does not make this less worthy reading. I was intrigued as all the details came out little by little and my investment in the characters meant I wanted to find out how things would work out for them. 

Them Girls is available from Amazon.

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