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| Lovesick: A Novelistic Memoir
| | Isobel Blackthorn
| A wild adventure through Thatcher's Britain, set against a backdrop of the British Indie Music Scene.
Naïve, defiant and incisively witty Isobel fashions her own path through the counter-culture, poverty and politics of the eighties.
By turns absurdly funny, sexually charged and heartrendingly sad, Lovesick is an unforgettable, tragi-comic tale of a young woman’s search for her identity.
Pretty girl, nice smile is all Isobel can say about herself. That, and she’s working class. What matters to her is she’s different. After devouring Camus’ The Outsider she realises for reasons strange to her, she is strange to the world. And she's searching for love. It's a disastrous mix.
Her unquenchable need for romance leads her to Lanzarote in the Canary Islands, where she takes unconventionality to extremes. She's determined to be truly herself, face her fears, and go with the flow. But her obsession with the charismatic Miguel, thirst for danger and an acquired taste for cocaine launch her into the island's murderous criminal underworld.
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