The Good Listener

WARNING: This book is not for everyone. It contains themes of organised crime, physical abuse and eating disorders as well as passing mention of drugs and sex, and quite a bit of swearing.

Kitten is a loner. She finds herself in the alien world of a music festival, where her mum is working at a vegetarian burger van because they need the money. Here there are massive crowds of people always talking, and the walls of tents are thin; Kitten can't help overhearing other people's stories and getting tangled into them. She gets mixed up with Jasper, who is mean and frightening and manipulative, and his older brother, Gabriel, who is too beautiful to actually look at. But nothing is as simple as it seems at first. Kitten can't stand being who she is, and decides to change herself forever. What she doesn't expect is that someone will care enough to try to stop her.