Gather the Daughters
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Gather the Daughters
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Narrated by:
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Laurence Bouvard
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By:
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Jennie Melamed
About this listen
For fans of Emma Cline's The Girls and Emily St John Mandel's Station 11, this dark, unsettling and hugely compelling story of an isolated island cult will get under your skin.
On a small isolated island, there's a community that lives by its own rules. Boys grow up knowing they will one day reign inside and outside the home, while girls know they will be married and pregnant within moments of hitting womanhood. But before that time comes, there is an island ritual that offers children an exhilarating reprieve. Every summer they are turned out onto their doorsteps to roam wild: they run, they fight, they sleep on the beach and build camps in trees. They are free.
It is at the end of one of these summers, as the first frost laces the ground, that one of the younger girls witnesses something she was never supposed to see. And she returns home, muddy and terrified, clutching in her small hand a truth that could unravel their carefully constructed island world forever.
©2017 Jennie Melamed (P)2017 Headline Publishing Group LtdWhat listeners say about Gather the Daughters
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- Elle Booth
- 05-09-2018
Confusing at times
A boundary pushing book which explores some disturbing and important concepts. The plot was sometimes a bit weak and occasionally the magical realism is not quite pulled off seamlessly, but overall an important, challenging and creative exploration of gender sexuality, family, religion and all that goes along with it.
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
- Hannah
- 15-05-2018
girls gone wild
shocking, in tradition of handmaids tale but worse. Not for the faint hearted. An interesting read.
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- Janine Jaede
- 08-01-2022
love a dystopian story
I hope there is a sequel to this. Great story, fairly dark themes, along the lines of Handmaid's Tale, but original.
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- Marieke
- 24-11-2017
weird and sick
I have no idea who would enjoy this story of incest on an island with an unsatisfying ending. I kept listening hoping it would make sense in the end, but no such luck.
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- Sonya perks
- 16-12-2018
Couldn’t finish it.
I found this book a little disturbing and I couldn’t get into it. Not a fan of it
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