Fifteen-year old Anais Hendricks is smart, funny and fierce, but she is also a child who has been let down, or worse, by just about every adult she has ever met. Sitting in the back of a police car, she finds herself headed for the Panopticon, a home for chronic young offenders where the social workers are as suspicious as its residents.

Paperback edition of the novel about a young girl in a care home, from the Scottish poet. With appeal to fans of Eleanor Catton's "The Rehearsal" and Simon Lelic's "Rupture". 'An utterly magnificent achievement.' Irvine Welsh