The day Emma Green's GCSE results came through was the day her parents won twenty-three and a half million pounds on the National Lottery.

There's no point working for exams any more ? she'll never need a job. She can buy anything in the whole world. She doesn't need her boring old friends when she can fly Concorde to Paris to buy designer clothes, and when she and her family are featured in Heigh-Ho! magazine in their flash new mansion.

As Emma and her father Eddie Green egg each other on to spend more and more wildly, you long for Emma to get her comeuppance ? and she does.

A dark and shocking fable from an author with his finger on the pulse and a rare ability to make you care about unlikeable people.

There are 208 pages in this book. This book was published 2002 by Hachette Children's Group .

John Brindley lives with his partner in the southeast of England. He has twochildren, both of whom have been instrumental in the development of his early stories for young people. John is a keen music fan and enjoys playing squash