Publisher's Synopsis
Rural Ireland in the late 1980s and, stuck in a rut in a small unnamed village, are 16-year-old cousins Laura and Kevin. The close cousins and constant companions ache to abscond to somewhere bigger, better, more exciting. But things are holding them back. As well as having to cope with family tragedies, the troubled, music-obsessed teens must also negotiate the tricky terrain of burgeoning sexuality, the pitfalls of adolescence, and issues of homosexuality that seem, confusingly, to impinge upon them. And then there is Laura's own serious affliction - epilepsy. Only cousin Kevin knows how to handle this tricky situation, or handle her. The months and the spiraling family crises serve only to bring them closer together: but how close is too close?
