Polly needs
a fresh start. In fact, she needs several fresh starts. She's quitting
her job as a television researcher to become a novelist. And she's leaving
her boyfriend Toby too. Together with her daffy, zany friend Alison,
she's heading to London and painting the town red... but will the paint
be her own blood? And will the paintbrush be the engorged member of
Igor, the serial rapist who lives in the bedsit below her?
When Polly meets
Igor, the sparks fly; She feels a star-crossed chemistry - but he needs
a lot of work: he snores, leaves the toilet seat up, forgets anniversaries
and is obsessed by anally raping immigrant girls.
Polly may be a beauty,
but can she tame Igor's beast? Whatever she does, she is determined
to finally stop dreaming and start living. Whether writing poetry or
cleaning up the remnants of Alison's dismembered corpse, she knows that
it's time to wise up and face reality. And then she can really start
to live
The
perfect feelgood rape book, 13 August, 2003
Reviewer: A dwarf from Birmingham
"I read this on the bus to work in the morning and even though
the bus wasn't going anywhere, and I don't really have a job, it cheered
me up. I loved the characters, thought that it was very wittily written,
enjoyed the descriptions of Chelsea and thought that the sex scenes
were hilarious! Finally, an accurate anal rape scene! I especially loved
the Hitler Youth theme running through it - there were shades of Leni
Riefenstahl that I hadn't expected to find. It's a simple story of girl
meets sex offender, but the author has used a sharp eye and clever observations
to make this romance really stand out from all the rest."