A fresh ode to sisterhood and sexual agency that crackles with verve and wit. I couldn't put it
down.-Gabriela Garcia author of the New York Times bestseller and Good Morning America Pick Of
Women and Salt Clarke refuses to turn this story into a morality play. . . [and her] newly rich
and famous [protagonist] doesn't turn away from sex work. Instead she uses her new freedom to
imagine what sex work might look like if its practitioners were truly empowered and autonomous.
Like Clarke's debut this is technically adventurous politically relevant and emotionally
engaging. -Kirkus Starred Review A page-turning feminist novel that tells the story of a poor
scrappy girl from rural New Zealand who grows reluctantly into a sex icon the face of a
movement and a mother all at the same time. Kate Burns grows up wanting attention from her Ma
but her Ma wants only money and Kate learns how to get both. She and her childhood friend
Lacey run kissing lessons for cash in the janitor's closet of Fenbrook High and just like
that they find themselves in the sex work industry. From there they go on to work at The
Purple Panther a strip club in Auckland. When Ma dies of cancer Kate discovers that the men
her Ma was always inviting over to their home were in fact clients. Ma was no stranger to sex
work either. Following in Ma's footsteps Kate heads to Nevada where she picks up a job at
America's most prestigious brothel: The Hop. In her new life as a Bunny Kate searches for an
identity she can perform-the other Bunnies include a goth a housewife a cheerleader a rebel
not to mention Betty a trans beauty queen Mia a Japanese cosplayer and Rain a dominatrix.
Kate becomes Lady Lane. The girls at The Hop are more fantasy than fact and performance is
always more perfect than the real. Kate is a natural and quickly rises through the ranks to
become the bestselling Bunny and the owner Daddy's favorite. But when ten street hookers are
killed in a nearby city just bodies with no names Lady joins her sister Bunnies in mourning
and begins to see things in a new light. Lady's success breeds scandal and unwanted fame
deeply affecting her transforming her life and The Hop forever. Diana Clarke's provocative
second novel is subversive in the very best way an unforgettable work of fiction with a
radical message about women that couldn't be more important.
