You''re seventeen. One night, more or less by accident, you set fire to a garden shed.

Naturally, you pack up and run off to Paris, certain you can make enough money off your art to get by. You''re young, you''re pretty, you''re full of life, and you have your best friend in all the world by your side.

What could possibly go wrong?

Sarah Lotz''s hilarious, heartbreaking first novel has only ever been published in South Africa - Hodder & Stoughton are proud to be brining it to a world-wide audience, newly edited and with an all-new cover.