This is the debut novel from Rachel Trezise, winner of the Orange
Futures Prize and the Dylan Thomas Prize.
Rebecca is trying to grow up fast but the whole world's against her. She
falls in love, gets drunk, and takes drugs. There are things she needs
to forget. But when writing and books take hold of her life, she starts
to come up from the bottom. Depicting the hard, brutal edges of
childhood, this novel reveals grown-ups who fight, steal, get drunk, and
get arrested--and then give kids a hard time for taking drugs.