by Ali Smith
First published 2007
Anthea works at a bottled water plant where her sister Midge recently lost her job. When a mysterious graffiti artist named Robin begins exposing the company's environmental crimes, Anthea's world transforms. As corporate retaliation mounts and Robin's radical activism escalates, the two are drawn into a dangerous confrontation that challenges everything they know about identity, justice, and connection. Their relationship becomes both a personal revolution and a political statement, blurring lines between gender, protest, and love.
Genres: fiction, romance, contemporary, lgbt, environmental-science, activism, contemporary-romance
Vibes: emotional-atmospheric, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, found-family
Setting: Bottled Water Plant
Period: Contemporary
176 pages · Hardcover · Canongate U.S.