Nicola Skinner - Storm

The extraordinarily moving, funny and original new novel from the author of the rapturously acclaimed BLOOM.“You were born raging, Frances Frida Ripley. That’s what happens when you’re born in a storm.”Frances’s parents were not prepared for her birth: they had a blanket and an easel and some paint, but not anything useful, like a car or a phone. So it’s no wonder Frankie has always had a temper. She was born on a BEACH, in a STORM.What Frances was not prepared for was dying in a freak natural disaster that wiped out her whole town.Waking up 100 years later, Frances finds a whole load of new things to be angry about. And that’s before the visitors start turning up, treating her home like it’s a tourist attraction. Which it is.Only there are worse people out there than tourists… and they’re coming for Frankie.Frankie is about to discover that there are things more important than herself – and that anger has its uses. Because when you have a storm inside you – sometimes the only thing to do is let it out…