Rebecca Navarro, best-selling authoress of Regency romances, suffers a paralysing stroke. Assisted by her nurse, Rebecca plans her revenge on her unfaithful husband. But will Freddy Royle, hospital trustee, celebrity and necrophiliac, thwart those plans? Dave Thornton, soccer thug, has lost his heart to flawed beauty Samantha Worthington. Together they go in search of the man who marketed the drug that crippled her - in order to cripple him. Lloyd from Leith has a transfiguring passion for the unhappily married Heather. Together they explore the true nature of house music and chemical romance. Will their ardour fizzle and die in the grim backstreets of Edinburgh, or will it ignite and blaze like a thousand suns?
Rezension
"A pure writer, producing staggering feats of storytelling... The skill of a master" Nick Hornby Independent
Klappentext
Rebecca Navarro, best-selling authoress of Regency romances, suffers a paralysing stroke. Assisted by her nurse, Rebecca plans her revenge on her unfaithful husband. Together they go in search of the man who marketed the drug that crippled her - in order to cripple him. Together they explore the true nature of house music and chemical romance.
Biografie
Irvine Welsh, geboren 1958 in Edinburgh, lebt vornehmlich in Dublin, verbringt aber auch viel Zeit in Miami Beach und ist seiner Heimatstadt nach wie vor sehr verbunden. Sein erster Roman "Trainspotting" wurde für den Booker Prize nominiert und von Danny Boyle verfilmt.
