Soft Core by Brittany Newell

Soft Core by Brittany Newell

‘Drew me in like a whirlpool’ NICOLA DINAN ‘A feverish love story’ ANOTHER ‘Hugely enjoyable … dreamlike and erotic’ THE TIMES ‘Romantic, dangerous and sexy’ STYLIST Highly seductive … and fun as hell!’ TONY TULATHIMUTTE A rollercoaster of a cult love story following a dancer in San Francisco’s erotic underground. Baby spends her days with her sweet, cross-dressing, drug-dealing ex-boyfriend, Dino, and every night dancing at Paradise Lost, a strip club where she transforms into whoever her clients want her to be. When Dino disappears suddenly, Baby plunges headfirst into San Francisco’s shady, erotic underground of dive bars and sex dungeons to find him. She encounters a surreal cast of characters: Simon, a recluse who pays her for increasingly bizarre favours; a suicide fetishist named Nobody; and Emeline, Paradise’s new hire who seems to want to steal Baby’s whole identity, starting with her underwear. Will Baby manage to find the only man she’s ever loved? Or might her past catch up with her first? A hottest book of 2025 in Sunday Times Style, Dazed, AnOther and Stylist. ‘A beautiful fever dream’ KRISTEN ARNETT, author of With Teeth ‘Exhilarating … full of verve, drama and detail’ NEW YORK TIMES ‘Incredible … the best book I’ve read this year’ STYLIST ‘A wide ride through San Francisco's dark underbelly’ DAILY MAIL ‘For the generation whose life is an endless stream of dead-end Hinge dates’ SUNDAY TIMES STYLE ‘A profound look at sex work and lives unusually lived’ DAZED

Praise for Soft Core:

‘Drew me in like a whirlpool – a wild spin into loneliness and desire’ Nicola Dinan, author of Bellies

'Soft Core is not just a book but a fully realized and highly seductive way of life―louche, fleshy, and freestyleBrittany Newell, a hoarder of details and perfumer of moods, has written an existential dual-mystery that's as carefully structured as it is emotionally urgent, like a ransom note in sonnet form. Deeply impressive and fun as hell!' Tony Tulathimutte, author of Rejection

‘I was consumed by Soft Core … Newell portrays a San Francisco of dark beauty with an endless revolving door of characters sketched out with great wit, tenderness and generosity. Funny, sexy and surprising, I loved it’ Pip Finkemeyer, author of Sad Girl Novel

'Newell’s prose is too elegant to be called raw, but the oomph, the heart, makes everything feel so real. I love this world and this narrator, the risks she takes, the story she tells, simple yet so seductive and just teeming with aliveness' Michelle Tea, author of Black Wave

'Incredible … It’s the best book I’ve read this year – romantic, dangerous and sexy. It made me cry and made the hair on the back of my neck stand up' Katie Buckley, author of Hero in Stylist

'Soft Core is a beautiful fever dream, a slippery, captivating pleasure, a love story stuffed inside a wadded nylon stocking. It’s a novel that wants to get close to you. It wants to bite your neck; it’s the actual promise of a hickey. I can’t remember the last book I read that was even half as tender. I ate it up' Kristen Arnett, author of With Teeth

'A profound look at sex work and lives unusually lived, and how they can be just as banal as the “normal ones”’ Dazed

'Brittany Newell is truly one to watch!' Emma Jane Unsworth, author of Animals

Brittany Newell is a writer and performer whose work has been published in Granta, n+1, the New York Times, Joyland, Dazed and Playgirl. She published her debut novel, Oola, at the age of twenty-one. She lives in San Francisco.

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ISBN 13	9780008670382
ISBN 10	0008670382
Title	Soft Core
Author	Brittany Newell
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers
Year published	2025-03-13
Number of pages	352
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