Lullabies for Little Criminals

Lullabies for Little Criminals

&#39;Like Angela Carter, she is relentlessly inventive&#39; Sunday Times<br /> &#39;Full of pathos, spirit and iridescent innocence&#39; Independent on Sunday<br /> <br /> The first novel by the author of The Lonely Hearts Hotel<br /> <br /> 12-year-old Baby is used to turmoil in her life. Her mother is long dead, her father is a junkie and they shuttle between rotting apartments and decrepit downtown hotels.<br /> <br /> As her father&#39;s addiction and paranoia grow worse, she begins a journey that will lead her through chaos and hardship; but Baby&#39;s remarkable strength of spirit enables her to survive. Smart, funny and determined to lift herself off the city&#39;s dirty streets, she knows that the only person she can truly rely upon is herself.