Playing With the Grown-Ups

Mothers and their daughters. Daughters and their mothers? Young Kitty has a beautiful mother called Marina, who is both utterly beguiling and terrifyingly embarrassing, and more often than not Kitty can only gaze on her antics with awe and toe-curling trepidation. But as Kitty becomes a teenager it becomes clear that perhaps Marina isn't the most exemplary of parents, and that sometimes a girl might have to be brave enough to put herself first. By turns hilarious, heartbreaking and scandalous, Sophie Dahl writes with a keen eye, a warm heart and wonderful lyricism about a coming-of-age that's quite unlike any other.