'Drew me in like a whirlpool' NICOLA DINAN 'A beautiful fever dream' KRISTEN ARNETT 'Highly
seductive ... and fun as hell!' TONY TULATHIMUTTE 'A ghostly feverish love story' ANOTHER
MAGAZINE 'Hugely enjoyable ... dreamlike and erotic' THE TIMES 'Incredible ... romantic
dangerous and sexy' KATIE BUCKLEY A hottest book of 2025 in Sunday Times Style Dazed AnOther
and Stylist A blazing novel following a young woman on a wild hallucinogenic quest for love
and selfhood in San Francisco's seedy underground. Baby is a dancer at a strip club and at the
age of 27 she's 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 Francisco's 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 co-workers
like Emeline the balletic new hire who seems to want to steal Baby's whole identity starting
with her underwear. It's 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 she's 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. 'For the generation whose life is an endless stream of dead-end Hinge dates' Sunday
Times Style 'A hugely enjoyable exploration of all the strange things people desire' The Times
'A profound look at sex work and lives unusually lived' Dazed 'The more you learn about Baby
the more you like her ... Great fun' Daily Mail 'Moving... beautifully frank... a wonderful
portrait of San Francisco... filled with fantastic imagery' Observer 'Incredible ... the best
book I've read this year - romantic dangerous and sexy. It made me cry' Katie Buckley author
of Hero in Stylist 'Soft Core is not just a book but a fully realized and highly seductive way
of life - louche fleshy and freestyle ... Deeply impressive and fun as hell!' Tony
Tulathimutte author of Rejection
