A New Year has dawned at 1A Riverview and for Aimee McCourt Logan (AKA your narrator) reality is encroaching in the form of exams, job applications and an unprecedented bout of committed monogamy- usually, it seems, involving unsuitable or possibly illegal males. A boy detox may be the only alternative. Austerity measures are threatening the life-enhancing link between her school, Castle Grove in Derry, and Knockgorey outside Dublin, home of her cross-border Twin Caoimhe ( and her love god brother Darren.)Add to this a feminist mammy apparently seeking surgical enhancement, a lovelorn da threatening the family's reputation, a gran hell-bent on securing a criminal conviction, a disappearing cat, and it's clear Aimee's seventeenth summer is going to be a challenge. Then Aimee and her friends find themselves poised for international stardom- or are they?