A quirky comedy of misfits: Sequin leotards and Excel spreadsheets go head-to-head when an overlooked but resourceful woman recruits the exotic clientele of a South London fetish club to help her win back her accountant ex.Overlooked obsessive Paula may not exactly be setting the world on fire, but she’s happy enough with her quiet life and her boyfriend of eight years, accountant Alan. That is, until the day she comes home to find the office psychopath, Belinda, moving in instead.Told that she’s too boring, Paula puts her best thigh-length leather-booted foot forward and sets off for her local fetish establishment, Club Liscious: (“wrinklies welcome”). Together with Luda the transvestite brickie, Gretchen the vegan dominatrix and a naked man in a mask called Fred, Paula hatches a plan to prove she is exciting after all and win Alan back.When her nemesis, the ruthless Belinda, embarks on a sinister plan of her own, the scene is set for a surreal yet thrilling climax."Refreshingly irreverent...hilarious…Echoing PG Wodehouse, Tom Sharpe and even Douglas Adams, Sadomasochism for Accountants is a fine comic novel."(THE SCOTSMAN)"You'll love every minute of this off-the-wall novel by a brilliant new writer"(WATERSTONES West End, Edinburgh)"If you dig films like Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, I predict you'll love this…but be prepared for parody as savage as Ricky Gervais or Rik Mayall"(THE BOOK BAG)"Hilarious and original...quirky, funny, fabulous. Loved it."(Best-selling writer, HELEN FITZGERALD)"A rhubarb wit strong enough to make your eyes water"LISA GLASS, writer and reviewer on VULPES LIBRIS "I’ll never see noses in the same way again"ANNE BROOKE, writer and reviewer, Vulpes Libris)
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