Astronaut!'Brilliant, compulsive and thrilling. I will be reading this book again!' Alice Winn, author of IN MEMORIAM 'One of the best novels I've read this year.' Joanna Quinn, author of The Whalebone Theatre 'You will love this book!' Jennifer Croft, translator of Flights by Olga Tokarczuk and author of The Extinction of Irena Rey ~ ~ ~ Romania, 1989: a grey place of mysterious queues, ubiquitous informers and daily news flashes about a man eating bear that

trained to lead

Her (very complicated) mother has just died

and has been described as the UK's leading expert on serial killers

Welcome to Chain-Gang All-Stars - the controversial entertainment programme inside America's prison system

Medusa has found the courage to face her tragic past and speak out

On the Road swings to the rhythms of 1950s underground America

the troubled and the trapped

In a story that moves with swift dark humour and insight

Bonus fun activity section also included

and New Zealand

Marriages broke down as the quest consumed people

Her investigation leads her to the legend of a young bride who's long been thought to haunt the woods nearby