The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey EugenidesIntroducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience classics which will endure for generations to come. That girl didn't want to die. She just wanted out of that house. She wanted out of that decorating scheme. The five Lisbon sisters beautiful, eccentric and, now, gone had always been a point of obsession for the entire neighbourhood. Although

A decade ago

'as though the root of the world were ripped clean off'

the differences between the groups

An uproarious and uplifting novel about sickness and health

Exploring the eighteen chapters of the novel and using the famous structuring principle of Homer’s Odyssey as our guide

On her sixteenth birthday

Reflections on hope

The Woman in White is the first and most influential of the Victorian genre that combined Gothic horror with psychological realism

the ground shifts

world populations

Few places are as familiar as the shore - and few as full of mystery and surprise

forget what we whispered and what we screamed