Life is not a bowl of cherries. Suck it up. On April-Mays first day at Trinity College she has the wrong colour bag too-bright socks & she gets her favourite novel confiscated for reading it during class. She makes total enemies with the evil Mrs Ho but she makes total friends with mouth-breather Melly. Then she meets the gorgeous Seb loses her entire wardrobe to a hobo & gets branded a sockless trouble-maker. A MONTH WITH APRIL-MAY is a one-eyebrow-raised account of a teenagers trials & tribulations as she navigates a new school a new family situation & a whole new way of life.