The year is 1999. The location is Reading, England. Cleo Howard is almost seventeen years old. Her primary concerns are sex, clothes, music, going to the pub and bosom growth. She’s studying for her A Levels and is getting to grips with Sociology. She is regretting Biology. Despite this, it’s going to be an exciting year. By the end of it she’ll have seen Metallica, Ministry, Marilyn Manson, Venomous Lizzard, Napalm Death and Type O Negative. She’ll have had sex in the same room as other people and fought the feminist cause while on a field trip. A new shopping centre will open in her home town but she will prefer Camden. As usual, Cleo is lucky to have her constant companions Ian and Jenni to help her weather the storms of the end of the millennium.