A captivating coming-of-age novel about love sisterhood secrets and betrayal 'A subtle
clever evocative book' Joanna Quinn Guardian Book of the Day 'Gorgeous and sad and
gripping and moving' Marian Keyes 'Slender perfect and sparkling ... I'm stricken with love
for this book' Meg Mason 'Details the profound and complex nature of love and family ...
Spare moving and beautifully written' Jojo Moyes 'Freud brings us directly inside the
beating hearts of her characters. I loved this' Miranda Cowley Heller 'Both delicate and
profound - about how relationships bind us together and pull us apart' Tracy Chevalier
____________________________________________________ From the author of Hideous Kinky comes
a captivating novel about sisterhood secrets betrayal and love. For as long as Lucy can
remember she's been caught between loyalty to her rootless idealistic mother and devotion to
her fierce and exacting sister Bea. From her unsettled childhood to her turbulent teenage
years she's been forced to make a choice. But as the sisters come of age and embark on their
own experiments - in love drugs work motherhood - they find their lives and their
relationships increasingly in turmoil. Can the love they have for each other transcend the
damage of the past? Or is the past too dangerous to examine?
