Girls Lost is a thriller featuring three teenage girls: Kim, Bella, and Momo. The three occupy a challenging limbo between childhood and adulthood, made only more difficult by the steady provocation of their malicious male classmates and pubescent bodies that are changing beyond their control. They are on the precipice of a grown-up world that seems to be broken into two groups: male and female; public and private; assailant and target. Eager to escape, the girls seek refuge in Bella’s greenhouse, a free zone where their imaginations run wild and their talents can flourish.
Award-winning author Jessica Schiefauer (b. 1978) has established herself as one of Sweden’s foremost writers of literary young adult fiction. Her widely praised first novel, If You Were Me (2009), was followed by the August Prize-winning Girls Lost (2011). Translated into several languages, Girls Lost was also nominated for the Nordic Council Debut Children’s Book Award. In addition to two theater adaptations of Girls Lost (2014 and 2017), the film based on the book, Girls Lost (2016), was a huge critical success and won several international awards.