Entertaining, irreverent and wrong-hilarious . . . Hugely enjoyable. It's about as menacing as a cool girl's black glitter nail polish - and just as much fun BIDISHA Observer
Scarlett Thomas was born in London in 1972. Her novels for adults include Bright Young Things, PopCo, The Seed Collectors, The End of Mr. Y which was longlisted for the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2007, and Our Tragic Universe. Her first series for children, The Worldquake Sequence, follows the adventures of Effie Truelove. She teaches creative writing at the University of Kent.
