An explosive literary debut, tender and funny, shocking and tragic, about the friendship between two fourteen-year-old girls on the loose during a long, hot summer in Berlin.

Two fourteen-year-old girls living in Berlin, decide one summer that it's time to grow up and to learn the things they need to learn before it's too late. They head to the red light district to "practice." This is their story.

A novel of breathless urgency, which is also nostalgic for an innocence that is so readily cast aside' Financial Times.