A heartbreaking story of friendship and betrayal - can we ever forgive the ones we love the most?
Rebecca Thornton is a journalist and runs an online advertising business. Her work has been published in Prospect Magazine, Daily Mail, The Jewish News and The Sunday People. She was Acting Editor of an arts and culture magazine based in Jordan, and she's reported from Kosovo, London, and the Middle East. Rebecca is an alumna of the Faber Academy writing-a-novel course, where she was tutored by Esther Freud and Tim Lott.
Compellingly dark, brilliantly gripping: Rebecca Thornton takes a
scalpel to the heart of female friendship.
*Elizabeth Day*
A very accomplished novel that had me eagerly turning the pages to
find out exactly what happened . . . I'm looking forward to reading
more from her
*The Haphazardous Hippo blog*
Neglecting work, household chores and husbands because I can't get
my nose our of my Kindle thanks to Rebecca Thornton's brilliantly
unputdownable debut novel, The Exclusives.
*3 bad mice blog*
Dark. Emotional.... This is the kind of story you need to be
prepared to sit down and absorb properly...if you like emotional
reads that will stay with you then this comes. Highly
recommended!
*Buried Under Books Blog*
An exploration of friendship, betrayal and the dark, disturbing,
far reaching effects down the years. What emerged is something
that's very, very good...We're in total suspense and want to be
there at the end for the girls' sake. When the end comes, it may be
tied off rather neatly, but it's an ending of just desserts and is
worth every chewed nail we collect on the way.
*The Bookbag*
A cracking read...the friendship between two girls at a privileged
boarding school is ripped apart by the events of a single
night...
*Prima Magazine*
Our Top 5 Reads....Two former pupils must try to overcome a dark
secret. Gripping.
*Heat Magazine*
The culture of secrets at an elite boarding school results in a
dramatic betrayal. Twenty years later it is still causing ripples
that threaten to ruin lives.
*Elle Magazine*
A boarding school novel with a hint of The Secret History...
Thornton ensures that the reader is engaged to the end, and is keen
to see how both plot strands pan out.
*The Workshy Fop Blog*
A fascinating insight into an all-girls environment, with the
dynamics and interactions. I like the fact this story shows the
darker side of boarding school life and the lengths pupils will go
to achieve their aims.
*Between the Lines Blog*
Rebecca Thornton is great at creating tension...I couldn't read
through the chapters fast enough...brilliant...I love Rebecca
Thornton's vivid writing style. She has a great way of describing
settings and situations which made me feel the huge variety of
emotions in the story very well. I absolutely loved this fantastic
book and highly recommend it.?
*Withloveforbooks.com*
The major achievement of The Exclusives is the maintenance of
suspense...The Exclusives is like a nasty Malory Towers, or a
grown-up version of the Chalet School, with the terrible striving
at its heart exposed. It's dark and cruel and in some places
melodramatic, but it sure as hell makes you want to know what
happened.
*Elle Thinks Blog*
Thornton is excellent at depicting the minutiae of female
friendship. Her storytelling is careful and lucid, and as I said
the whole thing is structured in such a way that you are both
engaged and enthralled, waiting to see what comes next.
*theselittlewords.com*
I wish I could give this book 6 stars! I absolutely love this book!
It is clever and intense; sometimes too intense. There are constant
twists in the story, that you may be able to work out if you are a
fan of mystery, but overall it keeps you reading until the very
last word.
*Breakaway Reviewers*
Thornton writes perceptively about how quickly and destructively
female friendships can break down
*The Sun*
A fascinating take on trauma, tragedy and the claustrophobic
intensity of female friendships
*wearandwhere.com*
An engrossing novel about girls, friendship and secrets set in a
boarding school - think Malory Towers gone bad!
*Good Housekeeping Magazine*
This isn't just about female friendship and the dangers contained
within, it's more like Donna Tartt's The Secret History meets
Curtis Sittenfeld's Prep
*Readers Digest*
The Exclusives by Rebecca Thornton is an amazing novel about girls,
friendship and secrets set in a boarding school - think Mallory
Towers gone bad!
*Goodhousekeeping.co.uk*
There's definitely a 'mean girls' element to The Exclusives and
readers of YA, NA and those who enjoy dissecting friendships and
their demise will enjoy it
*carpelibrum.net*
Brilliantly dissects the fragmenting friendship between two
apparently gilded girls. But after the terrible events of one
night, their lives spiral wildly out of control and into darkness.
So gripping, it's edge-of-your-sunlounger stuff
*Hush*
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