emma imrie was a plathobsessed selftaught teenage musician dreaming of fame from a remote village on the isle of wight she found it too briefly becoming a star of the nineties camden music scene but then she died in mysterious circumstancesin the aftermath of emmas death her younger brother jeff is forced by their parents to stay at the opulent home of childhood friends on the islandduring a wild summer of beach parties and music jeff faces up to the challenges that come with young love youthful ambition and unresolved grief his sisters prodigious advice from beyond the grave becomes the only weapon he has against an indifferent world as well as the only place where the answers he craves might exist