Hope has everything that money can buy ...except happiness. Oksana doesn't even have a mum. She thought Europe would offer a better life instead, she is bought and sold into prostitution. Then Oksana and Hope are thrown together in the most terrifying circumstances imaginable. But how do two teenagers with so little in common find the way...?

Due to her mother's obsession with weight and thinness, the false idea that being thin is the key to success becomes a reality in young Carmen's head as well and causes her to become just as obsessed as her mother in her quest for the perfect body--regardless of the risks and damages she knows she will have to endure. Original.

Product Description: There have been numerous anthologies of Scottish, Irish, Northern and London writing, but up until now no anthology that has attempted to bring together the best of English writing. At a time when Scottish and Welsh devolution means that English culture and identity are being hotly discussed, this anthology of new writing from a nation rediscovering itself will be timely and controversial...read more