London Underground
The year is 1977, and as England goes to the dogs, Julie Kent reinvents herself as Sterling, an outrageous thieving Goth with a dodgy sex life and an appalling attitude. Over the next two decades she cuts a bloody swathe through London`s decadent dens and ends up on a mortuary slab. but is she really dead? The social disintegration of the late Twentieth century is mirrored in Sterling`s mind - and body - as she sets off on a final mission to avenge her best friend, snuffed out by a gang of elitist thugs. George Brenton, a mortuary assistant, is drawn into her toxic web. Can she save him - and herself? Ian Bell`s take on the Gothic Novel has plenty of ingredients to turn our minds (and stomachs), but as an acute observer of society at all...
Дата выхода: январь 2004
