The Girls (Cline novel)

The Girls: A Novel
US first edition cover
AuthorEmma Cline
Audio read byCady McClain
LanguageEnglish
SubjectManson Family
GenreFiction
Published2016
PublisherRandom House
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint, e-book, audiobook
Pages368 pages
ISBN978-0812998603
813/.6
LC ClassPS3603.L547 G57 2016

The Girls is the 2016 debut novel by American author Emma Cline. It is loosely inspired by the Manson Family and the murder of actress Sharon Tate.

The majority of the novel, set in 1969, focuses on 14 year old Evie Boyd, who, feeling isolated and unloved, spends her summer on a ranch with a group of teenage girls devoted to an aspiring musician named Russell Hadrick.