(Paperback)

Lou Connor wants to escape her life of poverty, so she travels from Sydney to the US as an exchange student. But her host-family, the Hardings - who live in a prefabricated mansion in a nameless Chicago suburb - are in suffocating pursuit of a particular form of suburban perfection. From the very beginning, nothing is as it seems.

(Paperback)

Louise O'Connor is a troubled sixteen-year-old who leaves Sydney as an exchange student for mid-west USA. She hopes to create the perfect life she imagines only money can provide. But, the Hardings are as unpredictable as they are rich, and nothing works as planned. This is a humorous novel.