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The Good Girls

An Ordinary Killing

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By: Sonia Faleiro
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Bloomsbury presents The Good Girls written and read by Sonia Faleiro.

‘Narrative reportage at its best. Just extraordinary’ Fatima Bhutto
'A page-turner, a feminist text, and an essential read that is deeply empathetic' Deepa Anappara, author of Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line

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. A tiny village in western Uttar Pradesh. A community bounded by tradition and custom; where young women are watched closely, and know what is expected of them.

It was an ordinary night when two girls, Padma and Lalli, went missing. The next day, their bodies were found – hanging in the orchard, their clothes muddied.

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 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?

©2021 Sonia Faleiro (P)2021 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Abductions, Kidnapping & Missing Persons Gender Studies History True Crime Women Disappearance Village
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Brilliant book exposing a terrible story

This book was very well researched, written and narrated. it was hard to listen at times about the terrible and stunted lives of some groups in India (especially girls and women). This is especially so given India's increasing wealth but the police and criminal justice systems seem to be completely incompetent and corrupt. Social attitudes towards women and girls are almost unbelievable. A very sad story but one that needs to be told so hopefully things will change for the better.

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