Thirteen-year-old Byron needs to get away, and doesn´t care how. Sick of being beaten up by lads for "talkin´ like a poof" after school. Sick of dad - the weightlifting, womanising Gaz - and Mam, who pissed off to Turkey like Shirley Valentine. Sick of all the people in Hucknall who shuffle about like the living dead, going on about kitchens they´re too skint to do up and marriages they´re too scared to leave.
It´s a new millennium, Madonna´s ´Music´ is top of the charts and there´s a whole world to explore - and Byron´s happy to beg, steal and skank onto a rollercoaster ride of hedonism. Life explodes like a rush of ecstasy when Byron escapes into Nottingham´s kinetic underworld and discovers the East Midlands´ premier podium-dancer-cum-hellraiser, the mesmerising Lady Die. But when the comedown finally kicks in, Byron arrives at a shocking encounter that will change life forever.
Bold, poignant and riotously funny, What It Feels Like For a Girl is the unique, hotly-anticipated and addictively-readable debut from one of Britain´s most exciting young writers.