Review
"'An exceptional writer - warm, modern, daring and oozing sweetness and beauty.' Julie Myerson"
Book Description
Patsy and Michael - along with their vole-obsessed friend Owl - are workers in the fetish industry, employed by clients to enact their most bizarre and buried desires. One day the pair arrange to meet a potential client in a City bar. Edward is a married financier who hires the duo to accompany him on his encounters with Baby Girl, a fifteen-year-old Hoxton party girl he's become obsessed with.
A wonderfully compelling insight into a strange, unusual and at times disturbing world, Manual is about what we fetishise and why, about love and our failure to connect, and about the unfulfilling nature of consumerism. It is a major new novel from one of the most uncompromising and surprising storytellers in the English language today.
About the Author
Daren King was born in 1972 in Harlow, Essex. He was educated at Bath Spa University College, Bath, where he graduated in creative studies. He is the author of Boxy An Star, which was shortlisted for the 1999 Guardian First Book Award, and Jim Giraffe. Mouse Noses on Toast won the 2006 Nestle Children's Prize Gold Award.
