Set in the final days before a shocking tragedy forces an elite boarding school to shut its doors, Ellie Eaton''s The Divines is a razor-sharp debut that asks the question: were you really as good as you remember?

I am Divine.
My mother was Divine and her mother before that, which isn''t uncommon.
Although that was at a time when being Divine meant something . . .

The girls of elite English boarding school, St. John the Divine, were notorious for flipping their hair, harassing teachers,...