About this ebook
'Witty, intelligent and very, very funny . . . it deserves a wide readership' Time Out
Martin is kind, decent and good-looking. And look where it's got him. His boyfriend of four years has run off with a male prostitute. His friends John and Caroline are no help - John prefers infamy to sympathy and Caroline is too busy trying to work out if her wonderful, sensitive boyfriend is a closet case. And to top it all, Martin's hippie father turns up to stay, wearing his 'Proud to be an Embarrassing Parent' badge.
To escape, Martin jumps head first into hedonism, throwing himself into the gay club scene, a world of drugs and muscles, hard bodies and harder music. Meanwhile Caroline is learning that being Shameless has its price, and so does she . . .
How long can they keep up with the lifestyle? And can they find the man of their dreams when sex has become a substitute for love, and pleasure is measured in beats per minute...?
Martin is kind, decent and good-looking. And look where it's got him. His boyfriend of four years has run off with a male prostitute. His friends John and Caroline are no help - John prefers infamy to sympathy and Caroline is too busy trying to work out if her wonderful, sensitive boyfriend is a closet case. And to top it all, Martin's hippie father turns up to stay, wearing his 'Proud to be an Embarrassing Parent' badge.
To escape, Martin jumps head first into hedonism, throwing himself into the gay club scene, a world of drugs and muscles, hard bodies and harder music. Meanwhile Caroline is learning that being Shameless has its price, and so does she . . .
How long can they keep up with the lifestyle? And can they find the man of their dreams when sex has become a substitute for love, and pleasure is measured in beats per minute...?
Ratings and reviews
3.5
2 reviews
G Brindley
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November 21, 2018
Could have been a really good read but spoilt by endless descriptions of drugs, drug taking and drug dealing. A couple of pages was plenty ... it's not rocket science and it certainly doesn't warrant half the book at the expense of character and story development.
Lee Ludlow
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September 9, 2019
Yeah it's full of drugs but it's funny and made me laugh.
About the author
Paul Burston's work has appeared in TIME OUT, SUNDAY TIMES, GUARDIAN, INDEPENDENT, INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY and on CHANNEL 4. The INDEPENDENT named him 'one of the 40 most influential gay men in Britain'. He is also a curator in residence at the South Bank.
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