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Girl Dinner
- Author
- Olivie Blake
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Publish Date
- 23 October 2025
- Run Time
- 11 hours 3 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
From the Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller Olivie Blake, this is a powerful and darkly fun novel about ambition, lust and eating your fill – as wealthy moms and sorority girls practice a sinister new wellness trend.
‘Deliciously twisted and lipstick-stained, Girl Dinner serves up a feast of ambition, privilege, and the deadly price of belonging. I loved it’
– Lucy Rose, author of The Lamb
Good girls deserve a treat . . .
The House is the most exclusive sorority on campus, and all its alumni are beautiful, high-achieving and respected. After a freshman year she would rather forget, sophomore Nina Kaur knows being accepted into The House is the first step to the brightest possible future. The House will surely ease her fears of failure and protect her from those who see a young woman on her own as prey.
Meanwhile, adjunct professor Dr Sloane Hartley is struggling. After eighteen months at home with her newborn daughter, Sloane’s clothes don’t fit right; her girl-dad husband isn’t as present as he thinks he is; and even the few hours a day she’s apart from her child fill her psyche with paralyzing ennui. When invited to be The House’s academic liaison, Sloane enviously drinks in a level of collective perfection that she desperately craves.
As Nina and Sloane each get drawn deeper into the arcane rituals of the sisterhood, they learn that living well comes with bloody costs. And when they are finally invited to the table, they will have to decide just how much they can stomach in the name of solidarity and power.
‘The fever dream I never knew I needed, and I'm going to recommend it to everyone I meet!’
– Ali Hazelwood, bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis and Bride
Critics Review
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Deliciously twisted and lipstick-stained, Girl Dinner serves up a feast of ambition, privilege, and the deadly price of belonging. I loved it
Lucy Rose, author of The Lamb
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A book that whets your appetite before devouring you whole. Girl Dinner is cunning, charged and – just as you’re comfortable – a profound shock. Perfect for the era we live in
Chloe Gong, New York Times bestselling author of Immortal Longings
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Narrators Rita Amparita and Stephanie Németh–Parker add emotional depth to this academic thriller . . . Listeners will find themselves entranced by their performances
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Whip-sharp, nuanced and highly propulsive. I will be thinking about Girl Dinner for a long time
Hildur Knútsdóttir, author of The Night Guest
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At once hilarious, scathing, insightful, and heartbreaking - I devoured Girl Dinner! Olivie Blake never pulls any punches, defies genre boundaries, and this book cements her as one of the most unique voices writing at the moment. I live for her commentary on motherhood, relationships, and above all, academia. This book is the fever dream I never knew I needed, and I'm going to recommend it to everyone I meet!
Ali Hazelwood, bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis
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A female-fueled tumbleweed of bloodthirsty seduction. A decadent dive into the dark depths of ambition and toxic relationships. Deliciously addictive
A. R. Torre, New York Times bestselling author of The Good Lie
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Seriously, WHAT did I just read?! And when can I have seconds?! A brilliant head-trip of a book, Olivie Blake constantly comes at timely topics from new and interesting angles. I can't wait to see what she does next!
Katee Robert, New York Times bestselling author of Neon Gods
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As always, Blake eats! Girl Dinner is truly brilliant – a precise and ruthless novel about the impossibility of being a woman and a mother, it also answers the question of what it takes to win when you start from a losing position. I savoured every morsel of this wickedly fun and deeply satisfying interrogation of sisterhood, sorority life and the true cost of success
Ling Ling Huang, author of Natural Beauty and Immaculate Conception
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Girl Dinner is a crackling, tense journey between the ravenous teeth of feminine rage and sorority power struggles. Overflowing with creeping dread. I devoured it and loved every second
Chuck Tingle, USA Today bestselling author of Bury Your Gays
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An exploration of the many hungers of the female heart and the pain behind the drive to be everything to everyone, Girl Dinner shaves pearls into teeth and bites deep. As a woman, as a mother, as a wife, as an artist – I felt this story in my bones
Delilah S. Dawson, New York Times bestselling author of The Violence
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Details
- Author
- Olivie Blake
- Narrator
- Stephanie Németh-Parker, Rita Amparita
- Duration
- 11 hours 3 minutes
- Release Date
- 23 October 2025
- ISBN
- 9781035011469
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Genre
- Psychological thriller, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Contemporary horror, ghost stories and supernatural fiction, Narrative theme: identity / belonging
Synopsis
From the Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller Olivie Blake, this is a powerful and darkly fun novel about ambition, lust and eating your fill – as wealthy moms and sorority girls practice a sinister new wellness trend.‘Deliciously twisted and lipstick-stained, Girl Dinner serves up a feast of ambition, privilege, and the deadly price of belonging. I loved it’– Lucy Rose, author of The LambGood girls deserve a treat . . .The House is the most exclusive sorority on campus, and all its alumni are beautiful, high-achieving and respected. After a freshman year she would rather forget, sophomore Nina Kaur knows being accepted into The House is the first step to the brightest possible future. The House will surely ease her fears of failure and protect her from those who see a young woman on her own as prey.Meanwhile, adjunct professor Dr Sloane Hartley is struggling. After eighteen months at home with her newborn daughter, Sloane’s clothes don’t fit right; her girl-dad husband isn’t as present as he thinks he is; and even the few hours a day she’s apart from her child fill her psyche with paralyzing ennui. When invited to be The House’s academic liaison, Sloane enviously drinks in a level of collective perfection that she desperately craves.As Nina and Sloane each get drawn deeper into the arcane rituals of the sisterhood, they learn that living well comes with bloody costs. And when they are finally invited to the table, they will have to decide just how much they can stomach in the name of solidarity and power.‘The fever dream I never knew I needed, and I'm going to recommend it to everyone I meet!’– Ali Hazelwood, bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis and Bride
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