Read by members of Longlevens Book Club, this tale of toxic teenage cliques is the most absorbing and compelling book we've read for a long time.
Pinborough 's elegant and subtle control of the plot matches the manipulation carried out by her characters. Although the central characters are teenagers, we would not class this as a YA novel. It is a psychological drama of appearance and reality, insiders and outsiders, dominion and dependency. How better to portray this than through the intensity of adolescent 'forever friends'?
