Rose, Interrupted: Patrice Lawrence

Being a teenager is hard enough, but it's even harder in a world you've never known. Eighteen months ago, 17yearold Rose and 13yearold Rudder escaped a strict religious sect with their mum. They are still trying to make sense of the world outside no more rules about clothes and books, films and music, no more technology bans. But also no more friendship with the people they've known all their lives, no community and no certainty. It doesn't help that their mum has to work all hours to pay rent on their cramped, smelly, onebed flat above a kebab shop in Hackney.

While Rudder gorges on oncetaboo Harry Potters and dances to Simon and Garfunkel and show tunes, Rose swaps the ankle skirts and uncut hair of the Woodford Pilgrims for Japanesecute fairy dress and her new boyfriend, Kye. But there's loads of scary stuff about their new life that Rose and Rudder have no idea how to handle it's normal for girls to let their boyfriends take naked pictures of them, right?. When Rudder accidently sets a devastating chain of events into action, Rose must decide whether to sacrifice everything and go back to the life she hates, in order to save the people she loves.

A story about coming of age, slapbang in the middle of a strange new world.