Cracks

Name: Cracks
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Sheila Kohler
ISBN: 9798350893960

Author: Sheila Kohler

Narrator: Clare Staniforth

Unabridged: 5 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 11/14/2023

Categories: Fiction, Lgbtq+, Suspense & Thriller, Historical Fiction

Synopsis

The members of an elite girls swim team are the reigning queens at their South African boarding school. And then Italian student Fiamma Coronna joins their ranks. Beautiful, athletic, and suddenly commanding all the coach's attention, Fiamma is the envy of every girl on the team—until the summer she walks into the rural grasslands surrounding the school and disappears. Forty years later, the former teammates return to the school for a reunion, and the memory of that summer emerges like a long buried secret, the shocking, violent truth of what really happened to Fiamma no longer able to be contained . . .

Contains mature themes.

About Sheila Kohler

Sheila Kohler is the author of five novels, including Cracks, Crossways, The Perfect Place, and Children of Pithiviers. Cracks was chosen by New York Newsday and Library Journal as one of the best books of 1999. Kohler has also published three collections of short stories. A native of South Africa, she makes her home in New York City, and teaches at Bennington College in Vermont.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Blair

Cracks is one of five books I picked up at a charity bookshop shortly before lockdown began. It isn't a book I was looking for – I hadn't heard of it, or the author, before. Based on the blurb plus a scan of the first few pages, it struck me as something like Picnic at Hanging Rock (the hothouse......more

Goodreads review by Sadie

The fact that Vanity Fair called this book "erotic" is kind of disturbing. The students at this boarding school are fourteen years old. The swim team coach develops a sexually charged obsession with an incoming student, Fiamma, which makes the other girls on the team jealous. I think the writing sty......more

Goodreads review by C.C.

I saw the film “Cracks” and out of curiosity decided to read the book and found it to be more deviated from the movie than expected. As in the above description, the setting is in South Africa and Fiamma is an Italian girl from an aristocratic family. As a teenager, she enrolls in an isolated school......more

Goodreads review by Veda

Beautifully written - incredibly scary and mesmerizing.......more