The film tie-in edition of Helen Cross's debut novel, winner of the Betty Trask Award 2002.
It's 1984 and one of the hottest summers Yorkshire's seen. It's the kind of woozy heat to lose your mind in . . .
Mona is fifteen years old. She's a drinker, a thief and a fruit machine addict. Things are already going badly in the pub where she lives with her obese step-brother Pork Chop. But when Mona meets posh Tamsin Fakenham, a sassy girl with beautiful breasts, an actress mother and a sister who's died of starvation, things very quickly get much worse . . .
