Lucy tries so hard to be good. She was always a good student, tries to be a good friend, a good citizen, a good feminist, and now she wants a lover who will give her a good beating, preferably after tying her up.

Dating swings from the sublime to the humiliating, but then Lucy hooks up with someone who challenges her to pursue the writing career she has been letting idle. When she discovers a teen magazine from the 1970s, it sparks her imagination and her life finally seems to come into focus; but as she learns more about how women were treated behind the scenes, she has to decide what to do. How to be true to herself, as chaotic as she believes herself to be; how to be good to those around her; how to survive as a young woman in the still messy media culture of 2015. (From Flying Books)

Anna Fitzpatrick is a Toronto-based writer. She is the author of the children's book Margot and the Moon Landing, and has written for publications including Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, The Globe and Mail, Rookie, Hairpin and Hazlitt. She previously wrote a column about children's books in The National Post called Scribbles and reviewed picture books for The Globe and Mail.