Name: The Guineveres
ISBN: 9781250086617

Sarah Domet

"In the vein of The Virgin Suicides, a dazzling debut novel about four girls inexplicably named Guinevere, all left by their parents to be raised by nuns"--

A Novel

The Guineveres

Lauren Attaway

Four girls, all named Guinevere, are sent to a convent where they try to escape, and end up working in the sick ward as punishment. The Guineveres decide they should nurse four young soldiers back to health and the men will in turn be so grateful they will marry them. That's a brief, non-spoilery summary of the plot. 

I did not like this book. I genuinely feel like it's just not for me. The prose is beautiful, the girls are age appropriately annoying but not to the point of misery. I don't know if it was the Convent setting, the closed-mindedness of the time the novel is set, or just that it didn't connect with me. I can think of women in my life who will love this book, I'm just not one of them. 

*As an aside, I should state that I listened to this via a library Audiobook.

The Guineveres A Novel

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