Fleshworld

‘Science fiction as Alfred Hitchcock might have conceived it.’ The Times‘A compelling and elegantly crafted novel' The Scotsman‘Fleshworld is a dark, transgressive novel shot through with disturbing sexual imagery.’ The HeraldThreatened by a killer virus, the city formerly known as London splits into two zones. On one side the safe bubble of Pure World; on the other the perils of Fleshworld. When Rich’s perfect wife disappears, he has to cross to the dark side to save her. Time is running out. Has she already been soiled forever? And why did she go to Fleshworld?‘Despite being set in a vividly cinematic, dystopian future, somewhere between Ballard and Burroughs, Fleshworld is a timeless, deeply romantic tale of love, loss and redemption, that delves into the subconscious, exploring past traumas and their effect on the psyche, galvanised by a nail biting plot.’ TV Records‘A funfair slide through Clockwork Orange's purgatorial milk bar into the seminal experimentations of Michael Moorcock and George Zebrowski'. Simon Ings, The Times‘Deliciously dangerous.’ Sir Harold Evans'From its very first page, Carole Morin's darkly disorientating dystopia puts its readers on edge, plunging them into a strange and seemingly unknowable future.’ Alastair Mabbott, The Herald

'Fleshworld is a compelling and elegantly crafted novel.' The Scotsman; 'Fleshworld is a dark, transgressive novel shot through with disturbing sexual imagery.' The Scotsman; 'Fleshworld is psychopomp: a funfair slide through Clockwork Orange's purgatorial milk bar into the seminal experimentations of Michael Moorcock.' The Times; more reviews on carolemorin.co.uk

Carole Morin was born in the east end of Glasgow. At 16 she was a junior diplomat to the United States where she tested the boundaries of diplomatic immunity. She was Associate Editor of Granta magazine and Literary Fellow at University of East Anglia. She has beaten Stanley Kubrick in a dessert-eating contest, drunk mojitos with Fidel Castro and been taken for Graham Greene's lovechild in Hanoi. She has lived in Beijing and Kampala and now lives in Soho.Extract from Wikipedia.