John Gay is the author of The Bedevilments a boy about the clients perspective exploring the sex industry as a client, who is also battling with addiction. The character in the book, Anthony is barely present in his own life. A failed academic career, a soul-crushing call-centre job, an Alcoholics Anonymous group he resents attending: he’s checked out from all of it. He spends the Sydney summer trying to avoid the sun, and lives only for the evenings when he can visit Emma, a sex worker at a local brothel. It’s during these rented hours that Anthony finds brief moments of human connection. He can afford to see Emma maybe once a month, but he can never hold on that long. Then Emma disappears, and there’s nowhere left for Anthony to hide. By turns appalling, funny and tender, The Bedevilments is an eye-opening story about addiction, sex and anonymity.
John Gay is the author of The Bedevilments a boy about the clients perspective exploring the sex industry as a client, who is also battling with addiction. The character in the book, Anthony is barely present in his own life. A failed academic career, a soul-crushing call-centre job, an Alcoholics Anonymous group he resents attending: he’s checked out from all of it. He spends the Sydney summer trying to avoid the sun, and lives only for the evenings when he can visit Emma, a sex worker at a local brothel. It’s during these rented hours that Anthony finds brief moments of human connection. He can afford to see Emma maybe once a month, but he can never hold on that long. Then Emma disappears, and there’s nowhere left for Anthony to hide. By turns appalling, funny and tender, The Bedevilments is an eye-opening story about addiction, sex and anonymity.
John's website www.thebedevilments.uk
John's IG, with lots of discussion about the book: https://www.instagram.com/thebedevilmentsbook/
Blackwells page to buy the paperback with free (or at least cheap) shipping to Oz: https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/The-Bedevilments-by-John-Gay/9781738466788
Amazon Oz page to buy the ebook version: https://www.amazon.com.au/Bedevilments-John-Gay-ebook/dp/B0H8PYW7LS?ref_=ast_author_mpb
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