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THE WHISPERS By Heidi Perks (Century £12.99, 400 pp) Grace is a young mother who moves back from Australia to the English seaside village where she grew up. She encounters sinister barriers when she tries to rekindle her childhood friendship with Anna, who is under the spell of a new group of friends. Things get weirder when Grace is the only one worried sick about why Anna has vanished after a night out with her girlfriends. All the while, the leggings-clad Greek chorus of school gate mothers provides its own toxic commentary on events. This is a beautifully calibrated vision of all the jealousy and manipulation that can animate some groups of female friends and the strange power that turns the school gate into a battleground. ....