{"title":"Tabitha Lasley","description":"\u003cp\u003eDive into Tabitha Lasley's compelling exploration of modern relationships and personal identity. Perfect for readers who enjoy insightful, character-driven narratives with a touch of raw honesty.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"sea-state-book-tabitha-lasley-9780008390976","title":"Sea State","description":"‘Sea State marks the arrival of a gifted and exciting new voice’ Jon McGregor, author of Reservoir 13                                     SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE                           SHORTLISTED FOR THE PORTICO PRIZE                           A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF 2021                                     ’It’s extraordinary. It takes you places so few books do’             Observer                                     ‘Acidic, addictive reporting with a fictional veneer. Sea State’s writing alone is worth the admission price’             Financial Times                        Tabitha Lasley left her job, her relationship and London, and headed to Aberdeen to meet offshore oil rig workers. She wanted to see what men are like with no women around. She soon finds out what she is like with no one else around, save for itinerant men who spend half their lives stranded in the middle of the sea. Alone, and contemplating the wreckage of her former life, she dives into a relationship with the first rig worker she meets, a reckless affair that lays them both bare.             ‘She has the skill, a Joan Didion kind of skill, of inflecting non-fiction material subjectively, a habit of assessing situations via her nervous system’ Andrew O’Hagan, author of Mayflies","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49531530379537,"sku":"GOR012165497","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49739336155409,"sku":"NGR9780008390976","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50784746570001,"sku":"GOR014070730","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50889537454353,"sku":"GOR012942885","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51343823307025,"sku":"GOR012427797","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0008390975.jpg?v=1751257656"},{"product_id":"sea-state-book-tabitha-lasley-9780008390938","title":"Sea State","description":"‘Sea State marks the arrival of a gifted and exciting new voice’ Jon McGregor, author of Reservoir 13                                     SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE                           SHORTLISTED FOR THE PORTICO PRIZE                           A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF 2021                                     A candid examination of the life of North Sea oil riggers, and an explosive portrayal of masculinity, loneliness and female desire.                        In her mid-30s and sprung out of a terrible relationship, Tabitha quit her job at a women’s magazine, left London and put her savings into a six-month lease on a flat in a dodgy neighbourhood in Aberdeen – she was going to make good on a long-deferred idea for a book about oil rigs and the men who work on them. Why oil rigs? “I wanted to see what men were like, with no women around.”             Sea State is, on the one hand, a portrait of an overlooked industry, and a fascinating subculture in its own right: ‘offshore’ is a way of life for generations of British workers, primarily working class men. Offshore is also a potent metaphor for a lot of things we might rather keep at bay – class, masculinity, the North-South divide, the transactional nature of desire, the terrible slipperiness of the ladder that could lead us towards (or away from) real security, just out of reach.‎             And Sea State is, too, the story of a journalist whose distance from her subject becomes perilously thin. In Aberdeen, when she’s not researching the book, Tabitha takes pills and dances with a forgotten kind of abandon – reliving her Merseyside youth, when the music was good and the boys were bad. Twenty years on, there is Caden: a married rig worker who spends three weeks on and three weeks off. Alone and increasingly precarious, she dives in deep. 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She decided to make good on a long-deferred idea for a book about oil rigs and the men who work on them. Why oil rigs? She wanted to see what men were like with no women around.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn Aberdeen, Tabitha became deeply entrenched in the world of roughnecks, a teeming subculture rich with brawls, hard labor, and competition. The longer she stayed, the more she found her presence had a destabilizing effect on the men--and her.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSea State is on the one hand a portrait of an overlooked industry: \"offshore\" is a way of life for generations of primarily working-class men and also a potent metaphor for those parts of life we keep at bay--class, masculinity, the transactions of desire, and the awful slipperiness of a ladder that could, if we tried hard enough, lead us to security.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSea State is on the other hand the story of a journalist whose professional distance from her subject becomes perilously thin. 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