Remember your best-ever BFF? The one who was already a dynamo in middle school, who got away with everything, a girl so brave and gorgeous and cool that you might have hated her if you hadn’t loved her so very much?

Remember the girl with whom you shared lockers and lunches and secrets, the girl who heard about your first kiss and your first time and your first heartbreak? Your night-clubbing, joy-riding, skinny-dipping, way-past-curfew partner in crime?

Remember the girl who always stuck up for you and stood by you — until one day, she didn’t?

Yeah, us, too.

And so does Amanda Boyden, as evidenced by her knock-out debut novel, Pretty Little Dirty. A savvy Judy Blume-with-a-punk-rock-twist tale, PLD follows two privileged, precocious girls through awkward puberty, boy-crazy adolescence, and into the increasingly dark, drug-fueled adventures of their teens and early 20s — from the leafy upscale suburbs of Kansas City in the late ’70s to the hardcore music scene of Los Angeles in the early ’80s.

Pretty Little Dirty is a smart, sad, and totally satisfying read. A perfect book for all the girls who remember what they did to get grounded and don’t regret it — and for all PYT’s who’ve ever been BFF.

Available online at amazon.com or at your local bookstore.