Book description
Hope has everything that money can buy . . . except happiness. She may
be spoilt but Hope's sure that as far as her preoccupied parents are
concerned, she's hopeless. Oksana doesn't even have a mum. And her dad
and brother are miles away, left behind in Russia. She thought Europe
would offer a better life - instead, bought and sold into prostitution,
she feels dirty and used. Then Oksana and Hope are thrown together in
the most terrifying circumstances imaginable. Their only real chance of
escape lies with each other, but how do two teenagers with so little in
common find the way . . . ? A tense, shocking novel - with a hint of
hope.
Julia Bell is a novelist and lecturer on the MA Creative Writing
course at Birkbeck, University College London. Her first novel,
MASSIVE, was published by Young Picador to critical acclaim. DIRTY
WORK is her second novel. She is also the co-editor of the bestselling
Creative Writing Coursebook (Macmillan), written while she was
teaching at the University of East Anglia. Julia lives in London and
is working on her third novel.
