A vivid present tense account of life in a dysfunctional family told by a perceptive thirteen year old girl with a sense of irony and humour. Lou, her sister Sarah - 'for people who have been forced to share living accommodation for the last thirteen and half years, we have very little in common'- and her brother Mickey-'he's gay but he doesn't yet know it'-discover that their parents are going to be doing a 'trial separation with a view to permanent', and that their dad is having an affair with a sixth former. 'Thinking of my dad as anyone's 'lover' is actually quite gross.'Boyfriend' didn't seem the right word for an adult who is fast approaching forty-seven and owns socks that are older than I am.' Meet Lou, her siblings, her mum and dad, her nan who does seances, her friend Faiths who has six mums and dads (all gay) and Hammy, the escaped hamster.