Sophie Stewart
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Down and out in Fulham and Chingford, Tara should get a life. Instead she is a maelstrom of narcotics and vodka, and paranoia consumes her. To finance
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her progress through dance school, she totters from barre to bar, working nights at the mutilatingly dull Escape Club. When Dave Hardcore dies, Tara hears him from the grave: STOP BEING SUCH A WHINGING BITCH - SCORE SOME DRUGS AND SEX! Tara can score the drugs but not the sex. She's got too much to hide to have relationships. There's her criminal past, and the ugly red marks on her arms. Tara's misbehaving, no-hoper friends are of little help in her quest for normality. Lilly is an anarchist would-be pop star who can't sing; Cassie Lunchtime has been depressed for eight years, and sloanie call-girl Sarah is in danger of losing her nose through powder abuse. Even Seb has developed an obsession with Third Reich paraphernalia . . . Can any of them arrest their spiral of despair? SHARKING is a bitter comedy, a hard-hitting portrayal of self-obsession tainted by drugs; brimful of wit and dysfunction, a rancid read of everyday horror in sham glam London. Sophie Stewart is a groundbreaking talent. Here she ventures beyond the edgy confines of urban satire and serves up a tequila slammer of a book.
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