{"product_id":"soft-core-9780008670429","title":"Soft Core","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePREORDER — Expected release: 01 December 2026.\u003c\/strong\u003e This book is not yet available. Dispatch is subject to supplier availability and publication-date changes.\u003c\/p\u003e‘Drew me in like a whirlpool' NICOLA DINAN‘A feverish love story' ANOTHER‘Hugely enjoyable … dreamlike and erotic' THE TIMES‘Romantic, dangerous and sexy' STYLISTHighly seductive … and fun as hell!' TONY TULATHIMUTTEA rollercoaster of a cult love story following a dancer in San Francisco's erotic underground.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBaby 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\u003ch2\u003eAbout the author\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrittany Newell's debut novel Oola was published when she was 21 years old. Her work has been published in Granta, N+1, The New York Times; the first chapter of Soft Core was published as a short story called 'Baby' in N_1. In 2021, she was awarded a grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission that enabled her to write Soft Core.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brittany Newell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44300500074557,"sku":"9780008670429","price":21.24,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/7689\/2989\/files\/x1000_cd3b5729-55b5-4310-b363-6af1e9e0550d.jpg?v=1793697764","url":"https:\/\/www.palmleaf.com.au\/products\/soft-core-9780008670429","provider":"Palmleaf","version":"1.0","type":"link"}