Kissing In Manhattan

There are books you know you should enjoy, but don't. There are books you know you shouldn't enjoy, but do.

'Kissing In Manhattan' is the reason you learned to read. It is a twisted New York fairytale.

Its heart is the Preemption, the most glamorous and strange apartment building on earth, and it features, among others: Patrick, the diabolic millionaire with a taste for nude restraint; Rally, lying tied up in Patrick's bedroom during an outrageous party; Hannah, the nymphomaniac perfume heiress; Douglas, the teacher propositioned by his star pupil's parents; and, in no particular order, penthouses, bondage, Latin, stuffed jaguars, guns, Martinis, anvils, opals, guppies, priests, mirrors, bathtubs, lightning, whiskey, mahogany, beds.

'Kissing In Manhattan has everything: decadence, dark intentions, astonishing humour, romance, danger, and true brilliance. It is, above all, a staggeringly stylish debut from an astonishingly original, funny and talented new writer.