Sugar Rush is the story of a 15 year old girl who discovers she is a lesbian in the same year as her parents split up and she has to switch from her posh private school to a local comprehensive. She also learns that her mother is as much use as a chocolate fireguard - when she runs off to the tropics with her toyboy.

Burchill's uneven style doesn't offer the reader an easy ride: identities are as ambiguous as her narrative. One of the main characters has two names, which the author alternates at random. The impenetrable density of the teenage idiom is almost impossible to follow without some careful re-reading. Obviously, teenage characters must use authentic dialogue, but Burchill's determination to be cool obstructs her meaning.

If any teenager wasn't insecure and obsessed with their own school/cool status before reading this, they certainly would be afterwards. Sugar Rush is a catalogue of drink and drugs expressed in the language of adolescent failure.

The story is about a 15 year old and she realises she is a lesbian in the same month as her parents spilt up. She is finding it hard and she doesnt want to tell her mum but when she finally comes down to telling her mum she finds her with a new bloke !