A twisting cat-and-mouse novel, about desire, power and female agency, set in New York City’s historic women’s home, The Webster

It’s 2012 in New York and the intoxicating scent of opportunity hangs in the humid air. Twenty-year-old Theo has the world at her feet and a BlackBerry in hand. Visiting the city from Britain for a summer internship, she takes a room at ‘The Webster’, the last women’s residence in the heart of Manhattan.

She meets opinionated but inexperienced MK, caustic Magda and enigmatic Sylvie, whose envy-inducing job in fashion and access to the New York party scene quickly seduce Theo.

But in this slippery August heat, are anyone’s true intentions clear? Sucked into Sylvie’s world of glamour and excess, scarf tops and webcams, Theo blurs the lines of friendship and obsession, gaining an unforgettable education – in manipulation, choice and want.

A fast-paced, twisting novel of shifting loyalties, Girls! Girls! Girls! questions everything we hold true about self-determination and desirein a subversive yet instantly recognisable narrative.