LONGLISTED FOR THE ORANGE PRIZE
"NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW" EDITORS' CHOICE
"This book moved and provoked me in ways I can't fully articulate....Extraordinary."--Anna Paquin ("True Blood")
A seventeen-year-old girl pieces together the mystery of her mother's life and death among the bar[...]
A seventeen-year-old London girl flies to Los Angeles for the funeral of her mother Mandy, from whom she had been separated in her childhood. After stealing a suitcase of letters, clothes and photographs from her mum's bedroom at the top of a hotel on Venice Beach, the girl spends her summer travell[...]
Leaving has always come naturally to Eva Elliott. The daughter of a pilot,she spent her childhood leaving schools and cities. Now an adult, she enjoys the thrill of saying goodbye much more than the butterflies of a first smile or kiss. There's so much more potential in walking away, and Eva has alw[...]