Title: The Stars in the Bright Sky - Alan Warner - book
Summary :
At Gatwick Airport, five friends meet up to take the first cheap flight available. Manda, Kay, Chell, Kylah, and Fionnula, the Scottish teenagers from The Sopranos, have grown up, if not matured. Their paths have diverged, but their friendship remains intact, as fiery and stormy as ever. Students or newly employed, they have decided to get together for a dream vacation to Magalluf, Rome, or Las Vegas. In their luggage: bikinis, condoms, and hair straighteners. But leaving Gatwick proves complex and expensive. When Manda loses her passport, twists and turns follow one another, with a backdrop of drinking, clarifications, and philosophical reflections, all exacerbated by the arrival of the beautiful, young, and wealthy Ava, a college friend of Finn's with exotic English customs. As this frenetic story unfolds, the six girls reveal themselves to be, in turn, touching, ingenious and horrifying, until the final twist that gives the novel a closed-door feel.
