Growing Up Twice - Tapa dura

Jenny, Rosie and Selin have been best friends since school. Their teenage years were spent drinking too much wine in the park, dressing up for Friday night, and making the wrong choices with the wrong men because tomorrow seemed a very long way off. Eleven riotous years later, Jenny realises something. After more than a decade of waiting for her real life to begin, nothing has really changed. Here she is, still hung-over in the park, still dressed up in Friday night clothes and about to make her most inappropriate choice of man yet - a shy but somehow irresistible eighteen-year-old. But Jenny's not the only one waiting for real life to begin. And when tragedy turns their world upside down, all three friends are forced to realise that the real 'growing up' is still to come...

Rowan Coleman works in publishing and lives in London. In January 2001 she won the Company magazine Young Writer of the Year award, as a result of which she acquired both a literary agent and a publisher. Growing Up Twice is her first novel.