TY - BOOK AU - Evans, Harriet, TI - The beloved girls SN - 9781472251053 U1 - 823.92 23 PY - 2021/// CY - London, England PB - Headline Review, KW - Married people KW - Fiction KW - Missing persons KW - Family secrets KW - Manors KW - Bees KW - Ritual KW - Life change events KW - Domestic fiction N1 - Includes bibliographical references N2 - Catherine, a successful barrister, vanishes from a train station on the eve of her anniversary. Is it because she saw a figure - someone she believed long dead? Or was it a shadow cast by her troubled, fractured mind? The answer lies buried in the past. It lies in the events of the hot, seismic summer of 1989, at Vanes - a mysterious West Country manor house - where a young girl, Jane Lestrange, arrives to stay with the gilded, grand Hunter family, and where a devastating tragedy will unfold. Over the summer, as an ancient family ritual looms closer, Janey falls for each member of the family in turn. She and Kitty, the eldest daughter of the house, will forge a bond that decades later, is still shaping the present . . ER -