Product Description
An intelligent, darkly funny comedy, set in 1970s Essex, about an intelligent, teenage girl who falls painfully in love for the first time and decides that she needs to escape her eccentric, talented but suffocating family.
About the Author
Jane Yardley was brought up in an Essex village but went to university in London, where she has lived ever since. She has a Ph.D from Charing Cross Hospital Medical School and works on medical projects around the globe. Much of her life is therefore spent on aeroplanes and in hotel rooms, and this prompted her to get to work on her first novel. She has synaesthesia, a condition that mixes the senses - so that she has, for example, the gift of hearing music or seeing numbers in colour. Painting Ruby Tuesday, her first novel, is out now as a Black Swan paperback.
