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A Talented Mr Ripley for contemporary Berlin: a twisting, sensual, heady and razor-sharp exploration of creativity, fame, desire and the divided self ‘Riotous and raunchy ... a?salacious?romp?of breathtaking?self-invention and?spectacular self-destruction’ Service95 ‘The book that’s been missing from my reading habits: classically glamourous, timelessly seductive’ Torrey Peters ‘An erotic spectacular of self-creation and spiralling disintegration’ Olivia Laing ____________________________________________________ Charli has finished art school and now has no idea what to do with her life. She’s broke, disillusioned and her flatmates hate her. One night at a bar in Soho, however, everything changes when she first encounters the charismatic musician Alexander Geist. Androgynous, glamorously handsome, mysterious and just a little sinister, he feels something like a soul mate; and so when he heads off to Berlin, Charli follows. There, at the centre of the city’s febrile party scene, Charli and Alexander embark on their great project: to make Alexander into the biggest star since David Bowie. But Alexander is elusive, mercurial; and Charli is in over her head before she realises just how self-destructive her life has become under his spell. A story of obsession and excess, doppelgängers and disassociation, fame and the terrible things we do to feel loved, Lean Cat, Savage Cat is an unforgettable novel from one of the most exciting writers at work today.

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Lean Cat, Savage Cat is the book that’s been missing from my reading habits: classically glamourous, timelessly seductive, and painfully aware of the pitfalls of styling a life that cuts against the norm. Lauren J. Joseph is a wit and an assassin from one sentence to the next -- Torrey Peters, author of Detransition, Baby An erotic spectacular of self-creation and spiralling disintegration: a wunderkammer of spoiling promise that combines the mounting tension of The Talented Mr Ripley with the bleak, exquisite social comedy of Isherwood and Waugh, confirming the gimlet-eyed brilliance of Lauren J. Joseph -- Olivia Laing Praise for At Certain Points We Touch: A moving portrait of youth, friendship and first love * Observer, Debut Novelists of 2022 * An essential read * Stylist * This vivid debut novel has a live current running through its pages ... An impressive debut with lines that linger with on the page * Esquire * A smart, sparkling, twisting, millennial queer odyssey ... Lithe, perspicacious, melancholic and funny as hell * Attitude * Beautifully written, smart, snappy story of queer love. Incredibly funny and moving -- Juno Roche A stone-cold masterpiece, which in its scope, frankness and ambition reminds me of The Line of Beauty, retooled for the 21st century. By turns libidinous, hilarious, melancholy and full of feeling, it reveals Lauren John Joseph as a shocking new talent -- Olivia Laing Lauren John Joseph writes with such wit, glamour, and Style! I haven’t read a book that so powerfully evokes what it’s like to be a wild young artist among other wild young artists since the Bright Young Things were publishing -- Torrey Peters This is fabulous: screamingly funny, scandalously hot, opulent, deep - a devastating torch song of obsession and excess -- Jeremy Atherton Lin Examines queer loss and survival elegantly, devastatingly, and critically incisive. Lauren John Joseph is a writer to reckon with. I'll read whatever they'll write next -- Isabel Waidner Lauren's debut novel is so exciting. The writing is so fresh, funny and gripping - and carries the trademark wit that I have always loved from Lauren -- Travis Alabanza

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Lauren J. Joseph was born in Liverpool and lives in London. Her film and performance work has been shown internationally. Joseph’s debut novel At Certain Points We Touch was selected as a book of the year by Stylist, Sheerluxe and Foyles, and she was named one of the Observer’s debut novelists of the year. laurenjohnjoseph.com @lauren_j_joseph laurenjohnjoseph.substack.com

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