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As read on BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime
Luke is a young playwright: intense, magnetic and hungry for experience. Fleeing a disastrous upbringing in the North East he arrives in London and shares a flat with Paul, an aspiring producer, and beautiful, fiery Leigh.
The three of them set up a radical theatre company, their friendship forged in rehearsal rooms above pubs, candlelit power cuts, and smoky late-night parties, part of a thrilling new generation of writers, directors and rising voices.
When Nina, a fragile actress, strays towards their group, Luke recognises a damaged soul and the balance between the friends is threatened. Luke is torn between loyalty, desire and his own painful past, until everything he values, even the promise of the future, is in danger. Suddenly the fallout threatens to be immense.
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Sadie Jones wurde als Tochter eines Schriftstellers und einer Schauspielerin in London geboren. Nachdem sie einige Jahre lang durch die ganze Welt gereist war, ließ sie sich in London nieder und arbeitete vierzehn Jahre lang als Drehbuchautorin, unter anderem für BBC. Sadie Jones lebt mit ihrem Mann und ihren zwei Kindern in London.
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"An intoxicating and immersive read... It is a fraught and compelling novel; one that replays itself uncomfortably in the mind long after it is finished" Lucy Atkins Sunday Times
