"Riveting…while evocative of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and Picnic at Hanging Rock, Kohler"s writing is so smoothly confident and erotic that she has produced a tale resonant with a chilling power all its own."—ElleIn Sheila Kohler"s brilliant 1999 novel, a beautiful schoolgirl mysteriously disappears into the South African veld. Forty years later, thirteen members of the missing girl"s swimming team gather at their old boarding school for a reunion, and look back to the long, dry weeks leading to Fiamma"s disappearance. As teenage memories and emotions resurface, the women relive the horror of a long-buried secret. A stunning and singular tale of the passion and tribalism of adolescence, Cracks lays bare the violence that lurks in the heart of even the most innocent.