My Favourite Manson Girl

Anna is a 15-year-old girl slouching toward adulthood. Anna has had an excruciating year, topped off with new stepparents and a new school. So she 'borrows' her family's credit card and runs away to LA to crash with her sister. But Hollywood isn't the escape she needs . . . and it soon dawns on her: she's trapped in a town full of lost souls and wannabes, with no friends, no cash and no return ticket. When her sister's obsessive ex offers her a job researching the murderous Manson girls for his next indie film, she accepts - albeit reluctantly. This is not quite the summer Anna had in mind; but the more she learns about the girls and their fate, the more she comes to understand her family - and herself. My Favourite Manson Girl is a chilling, important story about being young, vulnerable, lost and female. This is a book about how girls disappear.