Heralded by some as the next best adult crossover novel since Mark Haddon?s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, who himself has given the book a thunderously good quote, this author?s debut is undoubtedly stylish, readable and fascinating. Rosoff?s story begins in modern day London, slightly in the future, and as its heroine has a 15-year-old Manhattanite called Daisy. She?s picked up at the airport by Edmond, her English cousin, a boy in whose life she is destined to become elaborately entwined. Daisy is staying for the summer in her Aunt Penn?s country farmhouse with Edmond and her other cousins.