'Electrifying. Essential reading' Olivia Laing
'Taut and filthy and beautifully written' Evie Wyld
'Compelling, shocking, hot, scary' Kristen Roupenian
'Horrific, the sexiest book ever, devastatingly true' Daisy Johnson
'Extraordinary' Lucie Whitehouse
'When I finished I was ready to pass out' Olivia Sudjic
'One of my favourite books' Megan Hunter
Living alone in New York, Frannie teaches creative writing to a motley bunch of students, and secretly compiles a dictionary of street slang: virginia, n., vagina; snapper, n., vagina; brasole, n., vagina.
One evening at a bar, she stumbles upon a man, his face in shadow, a tattoon on his wrist, a woman kneeling between his legs. A week later a detective shows up at her door. The woman's body has been discovered in the park across the street.
Soon Frannie is propelled into a sexual liaison that tests the limits of her safety and desires, as she begins a terrifying descent into the dark places that reside deep within her.
