White Oleander is a painfully beautiful first novel about a young girl growing up the hard way. It is a powerful story of mothers and daughters, their ambiguous alliances, their selfish love and cruel behaviour, and the search for love and identity.Astrid has been raised by her mother, a beautiful, headstrong poet. Astrid forgives her everything as her world revolves around this beautiful creature until Ingrid murders a former lover and is imprisoned for life. Astrid''s fierce determination to survive and be loved makes her an unforgettable figure.

''LIQUID POETRY'' - Oprah Winfrey

''Tangled, Complex and extraordinarily moving'' - Observer

Now a major film directed by Amber Tamblyn starring Alia Shawkat and Janet McTeer''Janet Fitch writes the way women think in a way that is so different and poetic and brutal'' Amber Tamblyn, Fast Company''Real . . . filled with sensual detail'' Oprah Winfrey''Amy Poehler had given me the book . . . and said, "You should just read this, it''s amazing" And I did, and I was so blown away'' Amber Tamblyn, WWDA young woman''s search for truth in the aftermath of loss.Josie Tyrell, artists'' model, teen runaway, at home in LA''s punk rock scene, finds a chance at real love with art student Michael Faraday. A Harvard dropout and son of a renowned pianist, Micheal takes her into his sophisticated world. But then comes a call from the Los Angeles County Corner asking her to identify her lover''s dead body.Passionate, wounded, fiercely alive, Josie walks the brink of her own destruction as she fights to discover what is left of the brilliant future she and Michael had dreamed.

White Oleander is a painfully beautiful first novel about a young girl growing up the hard way. It is a powerful story of mothers and daughters, their ambiguous alliances, their selfish love and cruel behaviour, and the search for love and identity.Astrid has been raised by her mother, a beautiful, headstrong poet. Astrid forgives her everything as her world revolves around this beautiful creature until Ingrid murders a former lover and is imprisoned for life. Astrid''s fierce determination to survive and be loved makes her an unforgettable figure.

''LIQUID POETRY'' - Oprah Winfrey

''Tangled, Complex and extraordinarily moving'' - Observer

Now a major film directed by Amber Tamblyn starring Alia Shawkat and Janet McTeer''Janet Fitch writes the way women think in a way that is so different and poetic and brutal'' Amber Tamblyn, Fast Company''Real . . . filled with sensual detail'' Oprah Winfrey''Amy Poehler had given me the book . . . and said, "You should just read this, it''s amazing" And I did, and I was so blown away'' Amber Tamblyn, WWDA young woman''s search for truth in the aftermath of loss.Josie Tyrell, artists'' model, teen runaway, at home in LA''s punk rock scene, finds a chance at real love with art student Michael Faraday. A Harvard dropout and son of a renowned pianist, Micheal takes her into his sophisticated world. But then comes a call from the Los Angeles County Corner asking her to identify her lover''s dead body.Passionate, wounded, fiercely alive, Josie walks the brink of her own destruction as she fights to discover what is left of the brilliant future she and Michael had dreamed.