They have sent me here because of what happened on the pylon.When ClodaghBrown writes these words at the age of nineteen she believes that she isleaving behind ... » 

They have sent me here because of what happened on the pylon.When ClodaghBrown writes these words at the age of nineteen she believes that she isleaving behind the traumatic events of her youth. But Clodagh soon learns thatyou can never entirely escape your past. In the aftermath of the incidenton the pylonone of the great electrified structures that dot the Englishcountryside like so many gargantuan grasshoppersClodagh goes off touniversity moves into a basement flat arranged by her unsympathetic familyand finds freedom trekking across Londons rooftops with a gang of neighborhoodmisfits. As she begins a thrilling relationship with a fellow climber howeverboth Clodagh and the reader are haunted by the memory of the pylon and of theterrible thing that happened thereand by the eerie sense that another tragedyis just a footfall away. «