An exuberant dark comedy about love, grief, sex, guilt, and one woman’s harebrained scheme to tranquilize her voraciously amorous girlfriend for a few days so that she might pay off her drug dealer, make soup, and finally get some peace and quiet. "A brilliantly quirky, surreally funny story... An intriguingly headstrong yet vulnerable character with an astonishing talent for making the worst possible life-decisions." — Sarah Haywood, best-selling author of The Cactus. Frances was not looking for a relationship when she met Elaine in a bar. She was, in fact, looking to drown her sorrows in a pint or twelve and nurse a broken heart, shattered by the gorgeous, electric Adrienne...
Publisher: Knopf (April 12, 2022) Pages: 272 pages ISBN-10: 0593320549 ISBN-13: 978-0593320549 ASIN: B09KC22DXX
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DAWN WINTER lives in Essex, north of London, and studied English literature at the University of Roehampton. She has held a variety of jobs in prisons, hospices, kitchens, and factories. Sedating Elaine is her first novel.