AustLit

'Jamila Dakhoul wants to escape her life.

'Forget everything.

'Forget that her only friends are strangers on the internet.

'Forget she's stuck in a caravan after a fire destroyed her family's house.

'Forget that Year 12 is a brutal hellhole where bullying is an Olympic sport.

'Forget Billy Radcliffe once and for all.

'But as Jamila tries to untangle the messy threads of her life on a weekend away with her family, it becomes clear that she can't outrun her past, no matter how hard she tries ...

'A coming-of-age story about falling apart, starting over, and the people and places you can't live without from the award-winning author of Remind Me How This Ends, Can't Say it Went to Plan and The Intern.' (Publication summary)