An unsettling and unputdownable story of a teenage girl's self-destruction, from the author of }The Lottery{. For fans of Donna Tartt, Neil Gaiman and Stephen King Natalie Waite, daughter of a mediocre writer and a neurotic housewife, is increasingly unsure of her place in the world. In the midst of adolescence she senses a creeping darkness in her life, which will spread among nightmarish parties, and the manipulations of the intellectual men who surround her, as her identity gradually crumbles.
