Soft Core

'A beautiful fever dream, a slippery, captivating pleasure' KRISTEN ARNETT, author of With Teeth Drew me in like a whirlpool a wild spin into loneliness and desire Nicola Dinan, author of Bellies 'Brittany Newell is truly one to watch!' EMMA JANE UNSWORTH, author of Animals A blazing novel following a young woman on a wild, hallucinogenic quest for love and selfhood in San Franciscos seedy underground. Baby is a dancer at a strip club and at the age of 27, shes feeling lost. It seems that only Dino, her sweet, cross-dressing, drug-dealing ex-boyfriend can keep her afloat. So, when Dino disappears without so much as a kiss goodbye, she plunges headfirst into San Franciscos shady erotic underground to find him. Baby searches through dive bars and old haunts, at the club and at the sex dungeon where she has a part-time dominatrix gig. She encounters clients like Simon, a recluse paying her for increasingly bizarre favours and a philosophizing suicide fetishist named Nobody, as well as coworkers like Emeline, the balletic new hire who seems to want to steal Babys whole identity, starting with her underwear. Its not long before she starts to find cryptic notes hidden in her belongings and realises her search is attracting the wrong kind of attention. With her grip on reality loosening and the clock ticking, will Baby manage to put together the pieces and find the only man shes ever loved? Or might her past catch up with her first? Manically smart, brutally funny and deeply sexy, Soft Core is a book about desire, fantasy, and true love like no other.