She's A Killer

Satire at its best'�ELEANOR CATTON'Outrageous, comic, disturbingly timely'�THE GUARDIANBold, darkly funny and brilliantly bizarre,�She's a Killer�is the story of what happens when a stubborn slacker is forced to confront a very weird world. Thirty-something Alice has an IQ of 159 (almost a genius) and lives at home with her mother, with whom she communicates only by Morse code.�Meanwhile, the climate is in crisis. Wealthy immigrants are flocking to New Zealand for shelter, stealing land, driving up food prices and taking over.�When Alice meets attractive wealthugee Pablo, she thinks she has found a way out of her dull existence. But then in walks his teenage daughter, Erika, an actual genius with impeccable eye makeup, and Alice finds herself drawn�into action of the most radical - and dangerous - kind. Just�what�is a slacker to do?