Natalie Waite, daughter of a mediocre writer and a neurotic housewife, is increasingly unsure of her place in the world. In the midst of adolescence she senses a creeping darkness in her life, which will spread among nightmarish parties, and the manipulations of the intellectual men who surround her, as her identity gradually crumbles.

An unsettling and unputdownable story of a teenage girl's self-destruction, from the author of "The Lottery". For fans of Donna Tartt, Neil Gaiman and Stephen King.