Mary accepts work in a study intended to discover ideal love. A famous actor sets the rules.
Catherine Lacey's premise makes intimacy inseparable from the conditions under which it is purchased and observed. The appeal lies in the gap between measuring a relationship and experiencing one. Choose this for unsettling literary fiction about control, need and the seductive promise that human attachment can be turned into a manageable system.
WHO IS IT FOR?
For readers drawn to character, language and the tensions within ordinary lives.
