In the present day Jo is now married and has a child. So Josephine was always known as "Jo." There is conflict with the outside class known as the "townies." Also many teenage issues in this book from sexuality, bullying, and weight-issues. John The Divine and the girls called themselves, "Divines." It is a boarding school for the privileged that many of the girls Mothers and Grandmothers also attended. In the past, Josephine attended a boarding school in England during her teenage years.
The story alternates from past to present time. It is a debut book that I think is beautifully written and pretty smart. This book seems to be a little hard to review and I can see I'm not the only one thinking this. As she circles ever closer to the events of that doomed spring, her life begins to unravel, derailing not just her relationships and work, but her entire sense of self. But a brief trip to the now shuttered campus reawakens long buried memories, and Sephine finds herself obsessed with her time as a Divine. An unlikely friendship with a townie named Lauren further upends her world, as does a tragedy that changes everything.įifteen years later and Josephine, née Sephine, is living in virtual exile, having not spoken to another Divine since those last fateful days of school. When Joe is forced to board with Gerry Lake, the class pariah, she feels the ground beneath her shift. Joe and her friends are fiercely loyal, sharp tongued and witty in the way that only teenage girls can be. Divines are known for flipping their hair, harassing teachers, chasing boys and chain-smoking cigarettes. John the Divine, an elite all-girls English boarding school. Set during the last days of a disgraced boarding school, the novel weaves between present day Los Angeles and Britain in the 1990s A spate of pornographic polaroids and a violent accident bookend Josephine's last year at St. A seductive and arresting debut about female identity, sexuality, class and obsession.Ĭan we ever really escape the scars of our past?
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