"Aliya and Ava meet at university and become wrapped up in each other in a way that is consuming but cannot sustain itself: inevitably, it falls apart."
"The novel explores how intensely our younger selves shape our adult lives. Our friends and peers are the clearest barometers of who we used to be as people."
"Their romanticism around England is because they've both been unhappy at school and felt lonely and misunderstood by their peers."
"I was interested in how that shatters when they arrive - it is difficult for a place to hold its mysticism when you're in it, living it, walking through its rain."
Strange Girls follows the complex friendship between Aliya and Ava, who meet at university and become deeply intertwined. Their relationship is both intoxicating and ultimately unsustainable, leading to a painful fallout. Years later, they confront the reasons behind their friendship's collapse at a hen party. The novel delves into how friendships shape personal identities and the romanticized perceptions of England that the characters hold, which clash with the reality they experience.
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