This is My Idea of Fun

'I was fourteen. Small for my age. Dishwater blonde, asthmatic, aroused.'





'A completely gorgeous, sticky-floored portrait of desire, friendship and growing up on the Internet' HANNAH BEER









'It made me blush on the overground!' AVERY CURRAN









'An astonishing debut' HUW LEMMEY









'A brilliantly assured debut, undressing the complexities of shame and desire for those who grew up during the MSN era' AMY TWIGG







Meg is 24. She's left behind her adolescent loneliness and spends her nights in the bars and clubs of East London, occasionally finding brutish men to dominate her in bed.





But it's May 2018. England are going to win the World Cup, Love Island is the best it's ever been, and Meg's getting ready to enjoy the greatest London summer of her life.





That's when she receives the email. It's from Daniel, the name on the screen that consumed her at age 14. Daniel, the boy who helped forge all of Meg's desires and wants. Daniel, who disappeared one day and ruined everything. Daniel, who would now like to meet.







This is My Idea of Fun is a charged novel is about fun and desire, about the MSN era and the life-changing potency of meeting strangers online.