The silk road - Jane Summer

Set towards the end of the 1960s, this enchanting first novel centres around the life of Paige Bergman, a cool, fierce and screwed up but brilliant 15-year-old hurtling toward adulthood, weathering an overbearing and jealous mother and a zombified father, a Buddhist motorcycle-riding lothario. Deftly exploring both the anxiety and excitement of teenage lesbian experience, it presents an original variation on the relentless theme of the seduction of the innocent old by the feral young and, in doing so, creates a mesmerising and unforgettable lesbian Lolita.