Reign on Cloud Nine.

Dean Monet

Oct 2011 · AuthorHouse

About this ebook

The UK's answer to Maupin's, `Tales of the City.' Cloud Nine takes us on a brave, breathless and bawdy romp through a world of gutsy glamorous drag queens, and cut throat gangsters. When the world has turned its back on you, there is one place you can go to find family, Cloud Nine. The newest nightclub on London's South Bank and the epi-centre of a new purposely built gay village. Its creator, one time international drag star Trixie Lix; queen of the village and Momma to all that work there. There's Tye from Birmingham, the thirty something manager who's starting a new life after the homophobic murder of his life partner. Then we have Alf a six foot, Afro-Caribbean lovesick doorman. We also marvel at the ageing foul mouthed cleaner, Joan, who is fiercely protective over her friends and the family at Cloud Nine. The latest of the Cloud Nine family is Mickey, a troubled teenager trapped by his gangster father, Jimmy Loney, into a life of violent crime and sexual abuse. We also get to meet the sharp wit of Lady Alice `Nana Love' Lovett, the anti-establishment Lady of Little Munch, and her vengeful niece Lady Victoria. Families can be formed in the most unusual of places, Trixie and her family at Cloud Nine take us on an explosively funny journey, with more plot than a vegetable garden, their story will make you laugh and cry, but will definitely make you want to visit.... CLOUD NINE...The home of the misfit. Cloud Nine is like a gritty, sequined, urban Jackie Collins. (Samantha Tongue-Editor)

Ratings and reviews

Absolutely loved this book. Cleverly written, intriguing and beguiling. Be careful reading this book in public, it has serious laugh out loud moments.

Fantastic! Could not put it down. A real Laugh out loud & pull at the old Heart strings story.

About the author

Dean Monet was born in Birmingham, England in 1967. He is the last of seven children born to a supermarket supervisor mother, and a ex-paratrooper father. Dean attended the local comprehensive school where at the age of sixteen wrote his first play, 'The Hospital Visitor', the success of which was followed by two further plays; 'To Be Or Not To Be...An Actress', and 'The Stuffing from The Pig'. Dean has acted on Television and on stage. In 1988 Dean moved to London, where he worked as a residential child care worker, and studied Child Protection at the University of East London, moving back to his home town of Birmingham at the beginning of the 90's, he studied counselling at the Solihull college. Dean still lives in Birmingham with his partner of twenty years, William John-James. He is currently working on two further novels, one being a sequel to Reign On Cloud Nine.