She's A Killer

Satire at its best' ELEANOR CATTON, author of Birnam Wood'Outrageous, comic, disturbingly timely'�THE GUARDIANA stubborn slacker is spurred to radical climate action by a snarky teenager with big ideas in this bold, darkly funny and brilliantly bizarre debut. Thirty-something Alice has an IQ of 159 (almost a genius) and lives at home with her mother, with whom she communicates only by Morse code.�Meanwhile, the climate is in crisis. Wealthy immigrants are flocking to New Zealand for shelter, stealing land, driving up food prices and taking over.�When Alice meets attractive wealthugee Pablo, she thinks she has found a way out of her dull existence. But then in walks his teenage daughter, Erika, an actual genius with impeccable eye makeup, and Alice finds herself drawn�into action of the most radical - and dangerous - kind. Just what is a slacker to do?�By turns sinister and hilarious,�She's a Killer�is the story of a reluctant genius who is drawn into radical action as the world falls apart around her.