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Anna is a normal Year 11 schoolgirl, a bit of a loner, but otherwise, just like you. One day a new boy turns up during an English lesson – Craig Ritchie, withdrawn, brooding, from the wrong side of the tracks. She tries to befriend him. Then one night, Anna is mugged. She fights off her attacker – and he turns out to be none other than Ritchie.
They get talking, and together decide that life is unfair. They reckon the people they know with money don’t deserve to have it, but Anna, Ritchie and the people around them have to make do with little. So why not turn the tables? And why not use crime to do it?
So Anna and Ritchie – like a modern Macbeth and Lady Macbeth – start a life of shoplifting and scams. They’re good at it. Very good. In the beginning ...