Pompidou Posse

You're seventeen. One night, more or less by accident, you set fire to a garden shed.

Naturally, you pack up and run off to Paris, certain you can make enough money off your art to get by. You're young, you're pretty, you're full of life, and you have your best friend in all the world by your side.

What could possibly go wrong?

Sarah Lotz's hilarious, heartbreaking first novel has only ever been published in South Africa - Hodder & Stoughton are proud to be brining it to a world-wide audience, newly edited and with an all-new cover.

“A harrowing, yet darkly comedic, yarn that grabs you immediately and never lets go.”

POMPIDOU POSSE is a heart-warming, touching and painfully funny book. It is a triumph of a debut novel and hopefully the first of many from this awesome new writer. - Something Wicked

Sets a high standard - and not only for debut novels. It is funny, scary, thrilling, and wild. - Brainwavez

- iAfrica

Sarah Lotz is a screenwriter and novelist who pens novels under the name S.L Grey with author Louis Greenberg; YA novels with her daughter, as Lily Herne; and is one third of pseudonymous author Helena S. Paige. Lauren Beukes calls her 'a natural-born storyteller. Like the hand reaching up from the dark well, she'll drag you into her thrall. You'll come up gasping.' Sarah lives in England with her family and other animals.

THERE ARE TWO TRUTHS IN LIFE: When best friends Sage and Vicki accidentally burn down a shed at their school, the choice is clear: either they get thrown out and have to work forever in a sandwich shop... or they run away to Paris. PARIS IS ETERNAL Life in Paris isn't quite as romantic as they'd hoped. It's hard to find work when you're only seventeen, and before long the two are couch-surfing and fire-eating to get by. AND FRIENDSHIP IS FOREVER But as long as Vicki and Sage have each other, they can survive anything... Can't they? EXCEPT WHEN IT'S NOT. Pompidou Posse is the hilarious, heartbreaking story of love, friendship, art and growing up by the acclaimed author Sarah Lotz. 'Devastatingly good' Lavie Tidhar, author of A Man Lies Dreaming ' At turns, hilarious, heartwarming and shocking, Sarah Lotz brings to vivid life the gritty underbelly of Paris with wit and empathy' Kim Curran, author of Glaze 'Honest, spiky and very, very real' Maggie Harcourt, author of The Last Summer of Us ' Sarah Lotz is a rarity in fiction, a true master of all genres' Sarah Pinborough, author of Death House

You're seventeen. One night, more or less by accident, you set fire to a garden shed.Naturally, you pack up and run off to Paris, certain you can make enough money off your art to get by. You're young, you're pretty, you're full of life, and you have your best friend in all the world by your side.What could possibly go wrong?Sarah Lotz's hilarious, heartbreaking first novel has only ever been published in South Africa - Hodder & Stoughton are proud to be brining it to a world-wide audience, newly edited and with an all-new cover.

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