Five Miles from Outer Hope

The sly and subversive sixth book from Nicola Barker, one of our most funny and anarchic writers.It''s the summer of 1981. Medve, sixteen years old and six foot three inches tall (a positive girl giant) is stuck in a semi-derelict art-deco hotel on a tiny island off the South coast of Devon, with the rest of her crazy family members. There''s nothing to do but paint Margaret Thatcher mugs to suppl...