A stylish seductive new novel from Rebecca Sarah Ley winner of a Betty Trask Prize and the
Guardian 's Not the Booker Prize 'A stylish and gripping take on the campus novel - witty
incredibly sharp and compulsively readable' Sophie Mackintosh author of The Water Cure 'I
loved it: a bleakly funny off-kilter examination of the dynamics of power and attraction. I
raced through it' Rebecca Wait author of I'm Sorry You Feel That Way Sofie Muller can make you
into a better writer. That's why Alice and Walt are desperate to be in her creative writing
class. She can spot talent and apply pressure hone you - if you're good enough if you want it
enough - into something more elegant original daring. Alice wants it. She wants Sofie's hand
guiding hers to greatness then the book deal then the prizes and the plaudits. Still there
is gossip. Sofie will kill your darlings. Sofie will drive you too hard. Sofie's
boundary-pushing is not just professional it is personal. By the time Alice realises the
rumours may be true is it too late to wriggle free? And if not is it worth it to get what she
always dreamed of? BAD FICTION is a timely brilliant novel about fame and mentorship betrayal
and submission from one of Britain's brightest young writers.
