Hunger and Thirst

1987 : after o childhood trauma and years in and out of the core system, sixteen-year-old Ursula finds herself with a new job in the post room of a local art school, a bed in o halfway house and - delightfully - some new friends, including wild child Sue. When Ursula is invited to Join a squat at the Underwood, o mysterious house whose owners met a terrible end, she can't resist the promise of a ready-made, hodgepodge family.
But as Sue's behaviour and demands become more extreme, Ursula, who hos always been hungry for food and, more importantly, for love and acceptance, carries out her friend's terrible dore. Ifs o decision that will haunt her for decodes. Thirty-six years later, Ursula is a renowned, reclusive sculptor living under a pseudonym in London, when her identity is exposed by a true-crime documentary-maker who is digging into an unsolved disappearance.
But it is not only the filmmaker who hos discovered Ursula's whereabouts, and as her past catches up with her present, Ursula must work out whether the monsters ore within her or without. From critically acclaimed and award-winning author, Claire Fuller, Hunger and Thirst is a compelling and chilling tale of loneliness and female friendship, of the dangerous line between wanting and needing, and of how for o person will go to truly belong.