Emma Forrest's wild and witty debut novel, published when she was twenty-two - available for the first time in Bloomsbury paperback. Knowing, hip, and filled with teenage angst - for fans of Douglas Coupland and GHOST WORLD. "Flip, shrewd, cool, sure and insightful" Independent

Meet Viva Cohen: a teenage schoolgirl bombshell. Her bedroom walls are plastered with posters of silver-screen legends, and underneath her school uniform she wears vintage thigh-high stockings. Her best friends are a drugged-out beauty queen and an ageing rock-star, and she lives in London with her gay uncle, Manny. Viva spends her days gate-crashing gigs, skiving her exams and trying to live life as glamorously as her number one icon, Elizabeth Taylor. But then she sets out on a pilgrimage: in search of real love, experience and Jack Nicholson. Wicked-tongued, star-fixated, clever and restless, Viva is like no other girl - and this is no ordinary summer ...