The Scoop - paperback

LONGLISTED for the Guardian's Not the Booker Prize

“A wonderful tale of journeys, both geographical and emotional, that will keep you entertained at every turn... Cat Walker is a brilliant storyteller.”  Zoe Lyons, comedian and TV personality.

Casey Jones's life is a mess. Her job bores her, her parents confuse her, and she has repeated nightmares about her ex-girlfriend. In a moment of madness she packs in her job and plans an adventure with her schoolfriend, long-time lad Danny. What she didn't plan for was an extra passenger, in the shape of Danny's estranged twelve-year-old son, Ari, who has problems of his own.

The three of them are thrown together for an intense rollercoaster ride in Alice, a converted bright pink ice cream van, through some of the most beautiful and dangerous places in the world, from Tulse Hill to Tibet.