Reed So-Hyun

You better not mess with this queen. Born to a Korean mum and an English dad, So-hyun grew up caught between two worlds: too "white" for Koreans, too "Asian" for Brits. So-hyun was "quiet, smart kid" who could read and write faster than anyone, until kids in the primary school decided her eyes were "too small" to see the letters. That's when something cracked inside her clever little head. She quickly learned that beauty opens doors brains never will and that shoplifting designer outfits is a catastrophically bad idea when your dad is a cop. Two arrests later, Daddy dearest packed her off to the Lark Academy of Art, the last chance for society's misfits to "find themselves." Even when she is riding the bus back to a tiny East London flat, So-hyun struts through life like she is royalty. But beneath the perfect eyeliner she is still that quiet, smart kid, waiting for someone to see her for who she really is.