âYou were born raging, Frances Frida Ripley. Thatâs what happens when youâre born in a storm.â
Francesâs parents were not prepared for her birth: they had a blanket and an easel and some paint, but not anything useful, like a car or a phone. So itâs no wonder Frankie has always had a temper. She was born on a BEACH, in a STORM.
What Frances was not prepared for was dying in a freak natural disaster that wiped out her whole town.
Waking up 100 years later, Frances finds a whole load of new things to be angry about. And thatâs before the visitors start turning up, treating her home like itâs a tourist attraction. Which it is.
Only there are worse people out there than tourists⊠and theyâre coming for Frankie.
Frankie is about to discover that there are things more important than herself â and that anger has its uses. Because when you have a storm inside you â sometimes the only thing to do is let it outâŠ
The extraordinarily moving, funny and original new novel from the author of the rapturously acclaimed BLOOM.
