What happens when a vegan teenager, living in mundane suburbia, discovers she's really a blood-lusting vampire?

On a leafy street in the quiet British village of Bishopthorpe lives an ordinary and dysfunctional but happy family. Peter Radley is the village doctor, and his wife Helen is a member of the local book club. Their children Clara and Rowan are experiencing the standard hormonal anguish of adolescence.

But when Clara finds herself committing a bloodthirsty act of violence, her parents react with resignation rather than horror. Peter and Helen finally explain to their children why their skin is so sensitive to sunlight, why animals always run away from them, and why Clara's recent decision to go vegan has been so detrimental to her health. This is a tender and funny tale about the darker side of 'normal'.

'A sharp, bloody tale of abstinence and indulgence (and trying not to eat the neighbours).' Steven Hall