It's 1940 and Hollywood is reeling from the Hays Code: a harsh corrective to the debauchery of the 20s, blacklisting performers deemed 'unsuitable for the public' due to their promiscuity, hedonism or wayward sexuality. Usually, a combination of all three.
Enter Lucinda Blight, an out-of-work actor: her reputation precedes her. She harbours a vendetta against the Little Prick who penned the Code, both for dulling her career and for stealing away the woman she loves. But little does he know that Lucinda can be a Blight by name and by nature. She might not get sober, but she'll settle for payback.
A whirlwind neo-western road-trip novel, The First Girl in Hell follows Lucinda from a divorce ranch in Reno to a crumbling ghost town in the Nevada desert. Spritely and subversive, it is a novel of debased glamour, fortified by booze and revenge.
Genre: Literary Fiction
Enter Lucinda Blight, an out-of-work actor: her reputation precedes her. She harbours a vendetta against the Little Prick who penned the Code, both for dulling her career and for stealing away the woman she loves. But little does he know that Lucinda can be a Blight by name and by nature. She might not get sober, but she'll settle for payback.
A whirlwind neo-western road-trip novel, The First Girl in Hell follows Lucinda from a divorce ranch in Reno to a crumbling ghost town in the Nevada desert. Spritely and subversive, it is a novel of debased glamour, fortified by booze and revenge.
Genre: Literary Fiction
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