From the author of bestselling Girl in Pieces, comes the story of a teenage girl on the brink, and the bumpy road back to recovery.
Everyone in Bella’s life needs something from her. Her mum needs her support after the divorce, her dad needs her to look after her sister, her ex needs her to not be ‘too much’. The only person who never needed anything from her was her grandmother. But now her grandmother is dead.
There’s only one thing that dulls the pressure. Alcohol. It smooths the sharp edges of Bella’s life and makes it all so much easier. What’s the big deal? Everyone drinks. And Bella knows she can stop whenever she wants--she just needs to get through Thanksgiving.
Charlie Davis is in pieces. At seventeen, she's already lost more than most people lose in a lifetime. But she's learned how to forget it through cutting; the pain washes out the sorrow until there is nothing but calm. She doesn't have to think about her father or what happened under the bridge. Her best friend, Ellis, who is gone forever. Or the mother who has nothing left to give her. Kicked out of a special treatment center when her insurance runs out, Charlie finds herself in the bright and wild landscape of Tucson, Arizona, where she begins the unthinkable: the long journey of putting herself back together.
