ARGONAUT BOOKS

A propulsive, bewitching novel about home and family, the ache of unrealised dreams and the quiet tragedy of unrequited love. Fifteen-year-old Lea is from a village that is out of time, out of jobs and out of hope. She and her friends, however, are vivid and electric with life. They yearn, they dance, they fuck, they fight. And around them, a world that isn't quite our own vibrates with strangeness and threat. Now Lea is here, sitting on a bench, telling a silent stranger her life story. Because yesterday, change was finally unavoidable.