Kida Salt is a first year university student struggling through regular hospital visits and a demanding degree. The hospital has been like a second home to Kida since she was young; it's familiar and unapologetically honest. So when the ball game changes and she suddenly has other people to rely on and other places to be, she hardly knows what to do at all. And with Drew Abbott swooping into her life, making her feel things she has never felt before, what is a girl to do? With boys and bestfriends, parents and siblings all bringing chaos into her life, this savvy, cynical and sophisticated British girl is in for a tough and emotional ride trying to figure herself out once and for all. But it doesn't take long for Kida to realise that that's easier said than done. How do you decide how to live your life, if it's only when the person you love most is staring death in the face that you feel the most alive?