'Gripping' - Financial Times Sissy is used to being on the outside. The new girl in her West
Country school she has recently arrived with her troubled mother who is prone to letting
Sissy fend for herself. But from the day Sissy fights a boy in front of Tegan she's no longer
alone. The two grow intensely close over the course of the school year as they find themselves
on the threshold of girlhood. But threats are gathering thick and fast around them with
reports of girls being snatched at night rocking their community. As their make-believe worlds
bleed into their daily lives Sissy feels herself transforming into something strange and
terrifying. I couldn't put it down and feel haunted by every moment every sentence.' -Joanna
Rakoff '[A] moving debut' - Publishers Weekly '
