Born Free

Punchy, acerbic, sharp-witted and above-all, acutely observed, Born Free tells the story of an ordinary family who are all trying to escape from something - and each other.

The interactions between Jake, Joni, Angie and Vic reveal a hellish cocktail of adolescent ad mid-life crises; the savagery of sibling rivalry; the waking nightmare of a marriage gone cold - and, naturally, the unbridgeable, infernal chasm between the generations.

• "A funny, disturbing, remarkably courageous debut." The Guardian
• "One of Scotland's finest writers - and seemingly the only young woman marking this territory." iD
• "I loved this book because its freewheeling prose style dragged me along like a hit and run caught on the back bumper of a joyrider's car - Horribly fascinating and horribly believable too, Born Free is a wonderfully bleak and often hilarious novel about family life. Maybe west Edinburgh has found its Dostoevsky." The Crack