Set in the final days before a shocking tragedy forces an elite boarding school to shut its doors for good, Ellie Eaton''s The Divines is a razor-sharp debut that asks the question: were you really as good as you remember?
I am Divine.
My mother was Divine and her mother before that, which isn''t uncommon.
Although that was at a time when being Divine meant something . . .
The girls of elite English boarding school, St. John the Divine, were notorious for flipping their hair, harassing teachers, chasing boys and chain-smoking cigarettes. They were fiercely loyal, sharp-tongued, and cutting in the way that only teenage girls can be. But for Josephine, now in her thirties, her time at St. John feels like a lifetime ago. She hasn''t spoken to another Divine in fifteen years, not since the day the school shut its doors in disgrace . . .
But an impromptu visit reawakens blurry reco
