Hideous Kinky was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys prize and was made into a film starring Kate Winslet A bright, attractive summer look for the paperback. Backlist novel Peerless Flats is being rejacketed simultaneously to tie in with this look For fans of I Capture the Castle and Stealing Beauty

It is July, three months after Lara's seventeenth birthday, and a week before Charles and Diana's Royal Wedding. When Lara's father, a man she barely knows, invites her to accompany him on holiday, she finds herself far away from the fumes of London's Holloway Road in the sun-scorched hillsides of Tuscany. There she meets the Willoughby family, rife with illicit alliances and vendettas. The more embroiled Lara becomes with them, and with the carelessly beautiful Kip, the more consumed she is with doubt, curiosity and dread. And so begins her intoxicating, troubled journey into self discovery and across the very fine line between childhood and what lies beyond.