Book description
In a small-town high school in 1988, three misfit girls join forces to
form the Bitch Goddesses, a take-no-prisoners gang of fierce teenage
rebellion. Rennie, the stunningly attractive straight-A student, finds
herself way out of her depth when she embarks on an affair with her
married teacher. Cherry builds a shrine to Princess Diana in her bedroom
while nursing her hippy mother through her coke-fuelled rages. Amy tears
up her cheerleader's uniform while her drunken parents concentrate on
presenting a facade of perfect family life to the outside world. The
three girls swear to stick together, whatever life throws at them, until
one night when something so horrific happens it shatters their
friendship for ever. Fifteen years on, Rennie is a writer living in New
York, struggling to keep her life on track and hiding an erotic
obsession. In her Lake Superior show-home, a heavily pregnant Amy is
certain that her husband is cheating on her and that she is jinxed by
her past. Cherry, a model patient in an institution, suffers horrific
nightmares of four red letters carved on human skin. The Bitch Goddesses
may have grown up, but one way or another they must come to terms with a
shared past... Martha O'Connor is an internationally acclaimed poet.
Before turning to writing full-time, she was by turns a shop assistant,
waitress, latte-maker and eighth-grade teacher. She lives in San
Francisco with her husband and children.
