Gwen was a reporter and she spent a lot of time abroad running down stories, while her daughter Cathy had lived almost exclusively at one boarding school or another. Just over a week ago, Gwen had turned up at School to inform her daughter that the long separation was finally over and the two of them would move into a house and live together. Even start with a mother-daughter vacation, and indeed it was a memorable vacation.
A coming of age story about two sets of siblings who grow up together miles from anywhere, and who discover all the good things in life together. Two plus two can equal six or eight under the right circumstances.
Lady Mary Laidlaw owns and runs a hotel and hospitality Laidlaw business in Scotland. She also rules the Laidlaw Family. Has sex with men and her Teenage son, Roddy Laidlaw.
Zoot celebrates her coming of age at a party organised for her. As she watches Uranus orbit above her, Zoot has to choose who will be privileged to initiate her into the adult world. Will it be her mother, her best friend or someone totally different? It is a tense choice as she can only ever once celebrate the Coming of Age.
Stacy Richards is the stuck up bitch of the senior class at Greenwood High who thought that the world should answer to her. Her whole life changed when she was blackmailed for cheating on an examination.