A smart, savage and hilarious debut exploring love, sexuality, purpose and the delicious absurdities of online lifeFor fans of Patricia Lockwood and Alexandra Tanner A tale of internet longing and obsession that leads to selfdiscovery OurCultureFresh and bold. I was mesmerised Julia May JonasA brave and blazingly smart debut Garth GreenwellElsa is struggling. The relationship that has consumed her twenties is over and now shes working as a hostess in the small town where she grew up. Her one outlet is the internet and shes soon racking up hours of screentime in her childhood bedroom, falling down rabbit holes that promise a brighter, tidier, better future. Theres one particular object of her obsession an upandcoming actor who starts to occupy her every thought. When the actor arrives in Elsas hometown, she finds her virtual and actual realities colliding. But as Elsa vies to infiltrate the young mans circle, she finds a new and very real connection forming with one of his queer friends, forcing her to rethink her own identity and desires.Casts a spell in coolly detached prose, plunging us into the membrane between the social and the parasocial. I was blown away Antoine WilsonEnthralling, astonishingly assured At once familiar and estranging Sarah BlakleyCartwright

Binding: Hardcover;272 pages; Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing plc; Classification: FA; Weight: 506 g; Dimensions: 144 x 224 x 30

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