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...The Guest by Emma Cline (Chatto & Windus/Random House) Emma Cline’s The Girls won many fans for its queasily atmospheric evocation of a teenage girl adrift in a 1960s Californian cult....
...The wealthy clique depicted in Cline’s unsettling second novel is by turns boorish and menacing — but you won’t be able to look away....
...Which 1939 song has been recorded by dozens of artists, including Frank Sinatra, Patsy Cline and Sam Cooke — sometimes with the subtitle “(Down Mexico Way)”?...
...The Girls, by Emma Cline, Chatto & Windus, RRP£12.99/Random House, RRP$27 This compulsively readable debut is a vivid examination of adolescence in 1960s America....
...The laughter of my young son, the peace and quiet of not watching US cable news during election season, and the new solo album from Wilco’s guitarist Nels Cline. What is your worst holiday memory?...
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