Growing up isn't easy when your mother is a figurehead for feminism and the most famous lesbian in the world.
All her life, Molly Flynn has been intrigued, entertained, alarmed and exasperated by her mother Augusta's increasingly bizarre claims about who she is and where she came from. Sometimes she's the daughter of Mormon missionaries; at others, the progeny of Elvis and Jane Fonda, or the Pope - or even Fidel Castro's love child, smuggled out of Cuba in a fishing boat.
Now, as Molly sets off down America's West Coast to confront her estranged husband and serve him divorce papers, she looks back on her strange and unconventional childhood, with a mixture of nostalgia, wistfulness, irritation and a wry sense of humour.
But Molly will be waylaid on her journey from Seattle to California, and sidetracked - with dramatic, surprising, hilarious and very unexpected results.
Outspoken, outrageous, original and outlandish, 'The Naked Season' heralds the arrival of an outstanding new voice in British fiction. Unafraid to tackle head-on the fundamental questions about gender, identity and sexuality, Kira Cochrane's quirky style, inventive use of language, wit, verve and chutzpah mark her out as one of the most promising new writers of the decade.
