CJ SKUSE is the author of the YA novels The Deviants, Monster, Pretty Bad Things, Rockoholic and Dead Romantic. She was born in 1980 in Weston-super-Mare, England. She has First Class degrees in Creative Writing and Writing for Children and, aside from writing novels, lectures in Writing for Children at Bath Spa University, where she is planning to do her PhD. Sweetpea is her first novel for adults.
For my cousin, Emily Metcalf.
For the years I spent at your mansion while mine was being decorated.
