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…