This is a most unusual book for older teens and adults . Set in a world where girls are sold to brothels and marked with magical tattoos , which are cursed and continue to grow with them as they get older .
At sixteen they have to start earning their keep . Today it is Clementine's sixteenth Birthday and tonight she will learn for the first time just what is expected of her !
When she accidently kills her first client she , her elder sister Aster and three other girls risk everything to run away . hoping to find safety and freedom they travel as fast and as far as they can . pursued by the authorities their only hope lied in a story told by generations of girls . The shadowy figure might be their saviour . . .
If she actually exists and if they can find her
This is such a gripping tale which reminds us that in our own world many young girls still live a life they would not live by choice
At sixteen they have to start earning their keep . Today it is Clementine's sixteenth Birthday and tonight she will learn for the first time just what is expected of her !
When she accidently kills her first client she , her elder sister Aster and three other girls risk everything to run away . hoping to find safety and freedom they travel as fast and as far as they can . pursued by the authorities their only hope lied in a story told by generations of girls . The shadowy figure might be their saviour . . .
If she actually exists and if they can find her
This is such a gripping tale which reminds us that in our own world many young girls still live a life they would not live by choice