Cider with Rosie’ meets Stephen King.
A rites of passage story with a dark heart that builds to a terrifying climax…

The long, hot summer of 1989. A teenage boy and girls’ paths cross purely by chance. But Jack is no ordinary boy – brought up in isolation and hidden from the world till the age of sixteen; a dirty secret, his father’s cross to bear.

Music mad Daisy sees it as her duty to introduce Jack to the real world – and a lot more besides along the way – a task easier said than done with Jack’s numerous phobias and fears.

But as the summer goes on and the temperature rises, so does the body count, as together they search for the truth of Jack’s real identity.

Inspired by reading Nick Cave’s And the Ass Saw the Angel in 1990, lifelong book and music addict, Adam Longden, began to write the novel that would later become The Caterpillar Girl the following year. A career in the catering industry got in the way. But the story always remained. Fast forward to 2012. After finishing a long stint at running a pub restaurant, Adam found he had Mondays to himself. Utilising decades’ worth of scribbled notes, work on The Caterpillar Girl began in earnest. Little did he know how long it would take…