New Year's Eve, 1976.

Ten-year-old Poppy meets a Yorkshire boy in the Swiss Alps, and over the next three winters they experience first love. It is a love whose echo follows her long after childhood ends.

As she grows up, Poppy moves through punk-era London, New York's downtown music scene, drama school, addiction, recovery, artistic ambition and a series of relationships that promise reinvention. Beneath the exhilaration runs a darker story of family shame, longing and the struggle to understand who she is.

Spanning four decades and three countries, Swiss Kissing is a voice-driven novel about first love, memory, identity and the stories we inherit about ourselves.