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Battersea, 1961. London is just beginning to enter the swinging sixties. The world is changing – but not for sixteen-year-old Violet. She was born at the exact moment Winston Churchill announced Victory in Europe – an auspicious start, but now she s just stuck in her family s fish and chip shop dreaming of greatness. And it doesn t look like fame and fortune are going to come calling anytime soon.

Then she meets Beau. Beau s a Rocker – a motorcycle boy who arrives in an explosion of passion and rebellion. He blows up Violet s grey little life, and she can t believe her luck.

But things don t go her way for long. Joseph, her long-lost brother, comes home. Then young girls start going missing, and turning up murdered. And then Violet s best friend disappears too. Suddenly life is horrifyingly much more interesting.

Violet can t believe its coincidence that Joseph turns up just as girls start getting murdered. He s weird, and she feels sure he s hiding something. He s got a secret, and Violet s got a dreadful feeling it might be the worst kind of secret of all . . .