Marlowe is an eighteen year old Melbourne girl who has just recovered enough from receiving a donor heart to go back to school. Her outspoken hippy vegan mother has just moved the family in next to a butcher's shop and her flamboyant cross-dressing younger brother Pip is forever being teased for his unusual style. So, amid her mother's "Meat is Murder" protests and her brother's sparkles, Marlowe must work out how mentally to come to terms with living with a piece of another human inside her.
She tries to reach out to the donor's family to thank them but is told to back off, so instead joins a Facebook group of donor's and recipients and their friends and relatives. While on the page, she comes across some information about a young man Luis who was killed in a car accident on the night she received her heart. Could he be her donor? After some online stalking she discovers that his sister works in a chicken shop not too far away. On a visit there, she assumes an identity of "Ray" and befriends Carmen, Luis' sister.
You know that this is not going to end well as her hunt for answers to who her donor was, cause her to weave a more tangled web of lies that ends up hurting not only Carmen but also her best friend.
There is also the little problem of having fallen in love with the butcher's son, losing her temper with her brother and the conflict that arises between Marlowe and her mother, now that she no longer needs to be treated like she is dying.
Complex book with a realistic character portrayal and look at the complex issues that surround organ donation. Older readers due to LBGQT themes and strong language ( )