Astrid Katy Smythe has it all. She's beautiful, smart and popular. She's school captain and a straight-A student. She's basically perfect, and Hiro Silvestri hates her.Hiro is the opposite of perfect. He's slouchy, rude and resentful. Despite his brains, he doesn't see the point of school.But when Astrid meets Hiro at the shopping centre where he's wrangling shopping trolleys, he doesn't recognise her because she's in disguise - as a lobster.Astrid wants to change the world, Hiro wants to survive it. But ultimately both believe that the world needs to be saved from itself. Can they find enough in common to right all the wrongs between them?A wonderful romantic comedy - with a little heartbreak, and a lot of hilarity.