The summer I went to England everything changed. Part of that was because of the war, which supposedly changed lots of things, but I can't remember much of life before the war anyway so it doesn't count in my book, which this is. Mostly everything changed because of Edmond. And so here's what happened. 'Fresh, honest, rude, funny. I put it down with tears of my face.' Julie Myerson, Guardian'After five pages I knew she could persuade me to believe almost anything.' Mark Haddon, author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time'Assured, powerful, engaging . . . you will want to read everything that Rosoff is capable of writing' Observer