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Kerenza Penhaligan is a struggling actress: once feted as a future star she is now reduced to taking embarrassing bit parts in TV dramas and standing in for other, more successful actors at read-throughs. Wondering where her career has gone, unable to pay her rent, and with her self-confidence flagging, she struggles to keep sight of the boundary between right and wrong.When she steps in to break up a violent confrontation in a bar, Kerenza finds herself caught up in a twilight world of conmen and cheats, of dubious moral choices, and temptingly high rewards. She meets the enigmatic Evan, who offers her a different avenue for her skills - in which her acting talent ends up proving far more useful off the stage than on it.Kerenza soon learns, however, that there's no such thing as a victimless con…
'London-based and contemporary to its core...a 'gutful of 'no-don't do-it' moments, but funny gay best friend Mark offers some light relief. Richards' philosophical musings on Blair, leftie liberals, morals and more are thought-provoking.'
EVE (July)
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