Revolution has never looked so good... 'Heady and reckless and dangerously fun' New York
Times 'Sexy kinetic dazzling' Chang-rae Lee 'Filled with sex violence and glamour' Adam
Johnson Corsica 1993. As a sun-drenched Mediterranean summer heads into full swing
beautiful and brash seventeen-year-old Séverine Guimard is counting down the days until
graduation dreaming of stardom while smoking cigarettes and seducing boys in her class to pass
the time. The pampered French-American daughter of a politician Séverine knows she's destined
for bigger things. That is until three masked men emerge from an idling car tear her from
her bike duct tape her mouth and wrists and take her somewhere hidden from prying eyes. While
her parents try to negotiate for her release Séverine finds herself beginning to sympathise
with the political motivations of her captors and becoming attracted to the group's
charismatic leader Bruno. What follows is a summer of passion and terror careening toward
an inevitable explosive conclusion as Séverine steps into the biggest role of her life...
