This is an alternate cover edition for ISBN 0860683621

Fifteen-year-old Laura lives with her family in the seaside town of Camperlea. It is the Swinging Sixties, and Laura's ambition is to leave home for London and work in a Chelsea boutique. Meanwhile she worships her schoolfriend Vicky Logan who is all Laura longs to be: popular, outrageous, sensual, she lives in a large house on "the right side of town." Vicky knows she can have any man she wants - but she chooses a rough factory worker, Clarrie Piper. She begins to frequent the factory dances and Laura watches in powerless dread and fascination as the teasing game Vicky plays through one feverish summer draws to its inevitable, terrifying conclusion...