Special

8vo. Pp. [viii], 352. Printed wraps. Special roadshow edition, April 2002, celebrating 30 years of Picador.

Signed by Author to title page.

Author's debut novel. A group of schoolgirls on a post-exam break to the Forest of Dean fall prey to bouts of teenage obsessions, rivalries and crushes, in a haunting re-enactment of The Lord of the Flies. By the Somerset Maugham Prize-winning author of The Lighthouse Stevensons (1999). "[A]n uncomfortably compelling story about the raw self-loathing and wanton cruelty of teenagers." –The Independent