A lazy summer turns to murder in this debut novel that "sweats atmosphere, crackles with bad intentions, and pictures the tragedy and comedy of lost-generation youth in a vivid negative of inner-city life" (Sunday Times, [London]). School"s out and global warming has transformed the London park where Si and Danny go into a tropical island. Si just wants to settle into a lazy summer of hanging out on Primrose Hill--smoke weed, listen to music, and maybe fall in love. But his best friend Danny needs his help. He"s decided to kill his mother"s boyfriend, a drug dealer who beats her up, before his mother gets killed. Si can see Danny"s point. But murder just isn"t his scene--until Eleanor comes along. She"s beautiful, obsessed with sex and death, very troubled and incredibly tempting. Slowly at first, then with increasing momentum, Si"s loyalty to Danny and his confused pity and lust for Eleanor lead him into a moral dilemma beyond his control. Impossible to put down, Primrose Hill is "intense, intelligent, and highly readable" (The Guardian), "a novel to afflict the comfortable" (Literary Review). It heralds the arrival of a bold and compelling new writer.