Marsha is fifteen. She and her best friend Faith have this competition going on - who can shag the most boys? Marsha's losing, and in a rash moment she boasts she could pull any bloke she liked. So Faith bets her she can't shag Rich, a boy in their year. Marsha can't back out without losing face, so she sets about trying to win her £50.

 

But Rich isn't like Marsha's usual conquests. Shy and unassuming, he runs a mile at the sight of Marsha's usual tactics. Marsha has to change the way she behaves if she wants Rich to even speak to her, let alone take her to bed. Rich's family is so different from her own too - fun and cheerful. Marsha's own home life is miserable and lonely by comparison, although she's never realised how much she longs for 'normality'. Getting to know Rich means facing some buried feelings about her own mother and the night she died. And the awful guilt that she's carried ever since...