Item Condition: Collectible; Good
First Edition, without a jacket.
Prologue
WITH HER SHARP little face set in lines of dissatisfaction, the
rwelve-year-old girl sat up and searched for her knickers among
the forest leaves. It had finally begun to dawn on her that sex
with Bobby Franklyn wasn't all it could be. She put on her shoes
and kicked him hard. Get up, Bobby,' she snapped. "Ie's your
turn to find the bloody dog.
He rolled over on to his back. 'In a minute he muttered
sleepily.
No, now. Mum'll skin me alive if Rex gets home before me
again. She's not stupid, you know.' She stood up and dug the
heel of her shoe into his naked thigh, twisting it back and forth
in a childish desire to hurt. Get up.
OK, OK'He rose sulkily to his feet, tugging at his trousers.
'But this is pissing me off, you know. It's hardly worth
we have to go looking for the dog every time.
She moved away from him. It's not Rex that makes it hardly
worth doing. There were tears of angry humiliation in her eye
I should have listened to Mum. She always says it takes a ….