Juno Dawson

When socialite Lexi Volkov almost overdoses, she thinks she's hit rock bottom. She's wrong. Because rock bottom is when she's forced into an exclusive rehab facility. From there, the only way is up for Lexi and her fellow inmates, including the mysterious Brady. As she faces her demons, Lexi realises love is the most powerful drug of all ... It's a dirty business getting clean. Addiction, redemption, love and despair. Clean is Gossip Girl meets Girl, Interrupted, and it will have you hooked from the very first page. 'I loved it' Marian Keyes 'One to just enjoy' Stylist 'An emotional freight train of a novel' Heat 'As bold and gritty as it is fabulously glossy and readable' Observer

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“Being your own project must be exhausting.”

Lexi isn’t made of sugar and spice and all things nice any more. There’s a certain grim fascination in watching little girls ripen and spoil, isn’t there. Everything inside is gangrene and cigarette butts.

When will you acknowledge, Miss Volkov, that your actions have consequences?

I always knew they had consequences. I just thought I was the only one they affected. And I’m fair game.

be mindful of the people in your life who can get to you, even when there’s a sea between you.’

You don’t face temptation, you face life. Life is full of nice things that are bad for us.

There was once a cute little girl, but she was a shell, a shell I was latent in; a larva waiting to hatch inside her body and seize control.

You can only truly hate someone you used to love

No. Probably not. I think I probably got used to it. Maybe that’s when you become a grown-up – when you stop feeling safe.

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