Gareth Creer is one of the rising young talents of the moment whose writing combines the acute social observation of This Life with the brutal vision of Lock, Stock and Tevo Smoking Barrels. This is the story of Annie, a successful City high-flyer whose life falls apart with the departure of her unfaithful husband and the birth of her first child. A chance meeting with a charismatic black artist introduces her to a dark and lurid side of London~ she never knew existed.

'Provides some of the best descriptions of drug-driven hedonism presently in circulation. But the novel's real strength lies not in its concession to the underworld conventions of the urban narrative, but in what it brings to the domestic one,' Ra Page, The Times
'An edge-of-your-seat read It gathers pace and twists suspense to an excruciating pitch as failed love drifts into urban nightmare.' Lesley Glaister