The city of Grifonia, Italy, is swarming with secrets—thousands of years of dark, murderous secrets. Taz, a British student who has just arrived for her year abroad, thinks that she will spend her time in Italy sipping wine and taking in the rolling Umbrian hills. But she soon falls in with a cabal of posh, reckless girls—the B4—who turn her quaint fantasies into an erotic and dangerous rush through the darkest realms of friendship and love. We’re featuring Chapter 1 of Katie Crouch’s new novel, Abroad, a chilling parable of modern girlhood and a sad, wry testament to the beauty and recklessness of youth.
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