"My name not rhyming with anything particularly obscene that their young minds could come up with, they settled instead for a little pushing..." (366)

Claire North may have a good grasp of the disastrous consequences of climate change and the erotic tension of torturing someone for information but she severely underestimates the ruthless clinicality of schoolyard taunts.

I don't care how many lives he has, getting called Hairy Knobbus is going to leave a mark.