Anne Haug

She came back after 19 years, to the hick town where she was humiliated by her schoolmates. After school, she left for the metropolis to show herself and everyone else. To prove that she can make it, become a star or at least somehow successful.
At the bus stop she gets off to start her vendetta, against Dominic and Tamara. They were the dream couple of the school. Her entire childhood and adolescence she wanted to be like Tamara: from a good home, popular, with elaborate birthday parties including hired clowns, the beauty queen of the village, immaculate in her expensive, backless dress. Now the botoxed Tamara is mother to her three daughters Jessica, Joleen and Jennifer and wife to Dominic. Together they live in their perfect house with garden, SUV and waterbed.
What if Dominic had kissed her back then? If she had become the beauty queen? If she had found fulfillment in village life as a housewife and mother? If she had already been born into her family's wealth, like Tamara, instead of shimmying from job to job and having to live hand-to-mouth?

In the breathless, ecstatic rage of her protagonist, Anne Haug raises questions about origins, about leaving and coming back, about identity, about envy, about life dreams and their reality. And the question of whether revenge can be a satisfying answer to all this.