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The Loosening Skin Aliya Whiteley

The Loosening Skin By Aliya Whiteley

The Loosening Skin by Aliya Whiteley


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The Loosening Skin Summary

The Loosening Skin by Aliya Whiteley

In a world where people shed their skin every seven years, it's just a fact of life that we will cast of all the attachments of our old life. With every moult we become a new person, and though we can discard the past, the skin remembers, brings it all back if we touch it. And when our loves are part of us, those memories of love can be bought, if you know the right people.

Introducing the new drug, Suscutin, that will prevent the moult. Now you can keep your skin forever. Now you never need to change who you are.

But it's not so simple for celebrity bodyguard Rose Allington, who suffers from a rare disease. Her moults come quickly, changing everything about her life, who she is, who she loves.

Meanwhile, her former client, superstar actor Max Black, is hooked on Suscutin, because he knows moulting could lose him everything. When one of his skins is stolen, and the theft is an inside job, he needs the best who ever worked for him on the job - even if she's no longer the same person.

Because Max has a film to make about the Stuck Six, the world famous sextet of lovers, who share a perfect life. The Six have trusted him to tell the love story that captivated the world.

The Loosening Skin peels away the layers of these stories, exploring our definitions of love, sex and friendship, and what it means to grow, and change.

About Aliya Whiteley

Aliya Whiteley was born in Devon in 1974, and currently lives in Sussex with her husband, daughter and dog. Aliya is the author of the critically acclaimed novellas, The Beauty, and The Arrival of Missives, which have been shortlisted for various awards including the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, Shirley Jackson Award, James Tiptree Jr Award, the British Fantasy Society Awards, British Science Fiction Association Award and the Saboteurs. Her short stories and non-fiction and has been published in places such as The Guardian, Interzone, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Black Static, Strange Horizons, and anthologies such as Fox Spirit's European Monsters and Lonely Planet's Better than Fiction I and II. She has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize twice, and won the Drabblecast People's Choice Award in 2007. She lives on the South Coast of the UK.

Additional information

GOR009467353
9781907389610
190738961X
The Loosening Skin by Aliya Whiteley
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Red Squirrel Publishing
20181105
Winner of Subjective Kind of Chaos - Best Fantasy Novel 2019 (UK) Short-listed for Arthur C. Clarke Award 2019 (UK) Short-listed for John W. Campbell Award 2019 (United States) Short-listed for British Fantasy Award - Best Fantasy Novel 2019 (UK) Short-listed for Brave New Words Award 2019 (UK)
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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