The Good Girls returns to the scene of Padma and Lalli's short lives and shocking deaths, daring to ask: what is the human cost of shame? Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. In the ensuing months, the investigation into their deaths would implode everything that their small community held to be true, and instigated a national conversation about sex, honour and violence. The next day, their bodies were found - hanging in the orchard, their clothes muddied. It was an ordinary night when two girls, Padma and Lalli, went missing. A community bounded by tradition and custom where young women are watched closely, and know what is expected of them. A shattering, utterly immersive work of investigative journalism, The Good Girls slips behind political maneuvering, caste systems and codes of honour in a village in northern India to tell the real story behind the tragic deaths of two teenage girls and an epidemic of violence against women. Devastating' Financial Times 'Transfixing' New York Times 'A powerful, unflinching account of misogyny, female shame and the notion of honour' Observer _ A masterly and agenda-setting inquest into how the deaths of two teenage girls shone a light into the darkest corners of a nation Katra Sadatganj. lingers in the mind long after the final page is turned' Sunday Times 'A compelling whodunnit. **Longlisted for the ALCS Gold Non-Fiction Dagger** **Longlisted for t he Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize 2022** 'Haunting.
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