She`s remembering curtains closed against whatever might harm them & all the knick- knacks: the porcelain fairy, the chain of rubber dolphins, CDs piled a metre high. This was what home meant. It`s the summer before high school & Chloe is being sent away. Her mother can`t cope & needs something that her daughter cannot provide. All Chloe wants is to get away from her grandparents & back to her mother, her friends, & the life she knows. That is until she falls in with a local gang of outsiders & begins to experience the world she has been missing. However, her mother`s influence is strong &, as her life increases in savagery & risk, the girl will be forced to decide how much danger she can stomach. Crocodile is a story about the powerful connection between parent & child, & the intensity of the final summer of childhood. As with his debut, Fallow, it is told in Shand`s trademark style, blending elements of the grotesque & tender, undercut by a current of dark comedy.