From bestselling, award-winning author Meg Rosoff comes a gritty, intoxicating novel about a summer of unforgettable firsts: of independence, lies, love and the inevitable loss of innocence.
You can\'t help being pulled towards them -- can you?.
Irresistible people are Like gravity.
Then she meets her fellow interns: ambitious out-of-towner Dan, preppy rich boy Oliver, and Edie -- a beautiful, brittle, magnetic, instant best friend.
Sharing a hot, cockroach-filled apartment with a couple falling out of love completes the dream picture.
But from the moment she arrives in the city she feels wrong: wrong hair, terrible clothes, defective smile, too obviously a virgin.
A summer internship in New York was meant to be everything Beth wanted.
Summer 1983.
New York City.
Sharp and irresistible, it\'s perfect for fans of Judy Blume\'s Summer Sisters and Elena Ferrante\'s My Brilliant Friend .
From bestselling, award-winning author Meg Rosoff comes a gritty, intoxicating novel about a summer of unforgettable firsts: of independence, lies, love and the inevitable loss of innocence
