Cathy Thomas: Islanders

A gritty, beautiful and darkly funny book of linked stories covering twenty years in the lives of a group of intertwined people on the island of Guernsey Paul needs drugs for the party, but he also needs to take care of Josie. Josie needs a father figure. That's what Neil thinks, anyway. And that's all he wants to be to her, right? Annie needs to lose her virginity, so her friends have set her up with Paul. Becky needs to go to a real party and meet some real men, and she's not bringing Claire. Jen needs to wait for the ambulance. Then they can be the ones to take care of Kat. Claire needs to give Nikki the hen do of a lifetime. And she needs to talk to Becky about what she's found out. But she can't stop thinking about what's happened to Kat.