Snowflake

A NOVEL FOR A GENERATION\r\n\r\nMad and wonderful Roddy Doyle \r\nTender, laugh-out-loud funny, and deeply moving Louise ONeill\r\nAstonishing Stacey Halls\r\nA novel for anyone whos ever felt lost in the world John Boyne \r\nGAS and beautiful and truthful and touching Marian Keyes\r\n\r\nEighteen-year-old Debbie White lives on a dairy farm with her mother, Maeve, and her uncle, Billy. Billy sleeps out in a caravan in the garden with a bottle of whiskey and the stars overhead for company. Maeve spends her days recording her dreams, which she believes to be prophecies. \r\n\r\nThis world is Debbies normal, but she is about to step into life as a student at Trinity College in Dublin. As she navigates between sophisticated new friends and the family bubble, things begin to unravel. Maeves eccentricity tilts into something darker, while Billys drinking gets worse. Debbie struggles to cope with the weirdest, most difficult parts of herself, her family and her small life. But the fierce love of the White family is never in doubt, and Debbie discovers that even the oddest of families are places of safety.\r\n\r\nA startling, honest, laugh and cry novel about growing up and leaving home, only to find that youve taken it with you, Snowflake is a novel for a generation, and for everyone whos taken those first, terrifying steps towards adulthood.