Faber & Faber

Manual: Daren King

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Synopsis:

Patsy and Michael - along with their vole-obsessed friend Owl - are workers in the fetish industry, employed by clients to enact their most bizarre and buried desires. One day the pair arrange to meet a potential client in a City bar. Edward is a married financier who hires the duo to accompany him on his encounters with Baby Girl, a fifteen-year-old Hoxton party girl he's become obsessed with.

A wonderfully compelling insight into a strange, unusual and at times disturbing world, Manual is about what we fetishise and why, about love and our failure to connect, and about the unfulfilling nature of consumerism. It is a major new novel from one of the most uncompromising and surprising storytellers in the English language today.

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Categorised as:

Fiction

Sub-categories:

General Fiction

Places:

London

Genres & Themes:

Consumerism; Dysfunction; Men & Women; Modern Britain