The year is 1977, and as England goes to the dogs, university student, Julie Kent, reinvents herself as Sterling - an outrageous thieving Goth with a dodgy sex life and an appalling attitude. Over the next two decades she cuts a bloody swathe through London's criminal underworld until she finally ends up on a mortuary slab...but is she really dead? The social disintegration of the late Twentieth century is mirrored in Sterling's mind - and...