15-year-old Neveah leads a double-life. She lives with her mum, Marie, who works nights and isn't too bothered what Neveah gets up to, as long as it doesn't affect her.



When Neveah isn't at school, she's earning good money by moonlighting as a digital freelancer. Giles, her biggest client, is married with a troubled home life. Neveah lies to him about her age, telling him she's twenty-two and he believes her. Caught in a heated affair, Neveah will do just about anything to stop him from finding out her true age.



But a secret this big can't stay under wraps forever. When it all comes out, the consequences are devastating.



Why do some young girls become sexually active way sooner than is good for them, and if a man has sex with a girl who lies about her age, is he still culpable?



Catherine Evans was born in South Africa, and grew up in a family of bookworms in Swaziland and Malawi. She and her siblings were among a band of feral children growing up in the heart of the African bushland, in tiny communities populated by the good, the bad and the ugly.



After a degree in English Literature and Psychology with UNISA (the University of South Africa), she worked in the City for twenty years. She is currently a Non-Executive Director for Phoenix Copper Limited, which focuses on the exploration of green metals in Idaho, USA.



She lives in Oxfordshire with her husband and daughter. She also has three grown-up stepdaughters. She is also the author of The Wrong'un.



It's brilliant on consent and underage sex — if a man has sex with a girl who lies about her age, is he still culpable? Compelling.



This book goes to all the difficult places when it comes to the law, relationships, sexual consent, rape and statutory rape and the consequences . It is emotive and raw. Superb storytelling.



Amazing writing. Brilliant characters. Fantastic parallels and juxtapositions. Clever contrasts. Blinding realism.