Lottie Moggach's thrilling Kiss Me First is the inspiration for the major Channel 4 and Netflix TV series from the co-author of Skins, Bryan Elsey.
Shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award.
Teenage identity in the digital age is explored in this innovative, unsettling and powerful coming-of-age story about a life lived online.
Sheltered and obsessive, Leila spends more time online than in the real world. So she seems like the ideal person to take over the virtual identity of the vivacious and fragile Tess, who wants to disappear. But even with all the facts at her fingertips, there are things that Leila can't possibly know about Tess - or herself - until it is too late . . .
SHORTLISTED FOR THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD
On the internet, we can be anyone we choose. No one knows who we really are.
Sheltered and obsessive, Leila spends more time online than in the real world. So she seems the ideal person to take over the virtual identity of the vivacious and fragile Tess, who wants to disappear. But even with all the facts at her fingertips, there are things that Leila can't possibly know about Tess - or herself - until it is too late . . .
'The first coming-of-age novel for the internet generation'
Glamour
'Unnervingly claustrophobic and enormously moving'
Guardian
'Dubbed this year's Gone Girl . . . electrifying'
Psychologies
'Original and unsettling . . . brilliantly twisty'
Irish Times
'A brave, poignant and humane novel about society's taboos - and the cost of breaking them. Lottie Moggach has put her finger to the pulse of our times.' Liz Jensen, author of
The Rapture
