After a turbulent childhood, an American student lands a place at the prestigious Bath Academy of Arts in England in the 1970s. It's a rare time when creative working class kids mingle with bohemian aristocrats, when art seems revolutionary, and culture clashes prove inevitable. Liv Edlen meets a wealthy, older, married, man with a penchant for collecting art and people. Liv finds herself entangled in a web of deceit but it is unclear who is using whom. Along with her adventurous best friend, Una Arnold, Liv struggles to find her moorings in the rain-soaked city upon the River Avon.Excerpt: Art saved my life. Then it almost killed me. Finally, we called it a draw.