Infused with a humour of the blackest hue, this startlingly original book by a talented young writer crackles with imaginative metaphor and fine observations on modern manners. It's a shocking book, and not one for the narrow-minded. But behind the disturbing presentation of an assorted group of interconnected Mancunian lives, there's a deeper ethical perspective that is appropriately distanced from the outlandish goings on it wryly describes. More than once, the water went cold whilst I lay immersed in the bath and this extraordinary book.
