Soft Core : The cult love story novel of 2025 - 'Will make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up' STYLIST - Christine Lakin

Soft Core

The cult love story novel of 2025 - 'Will make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up' STYLIST

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Published: 4th February 2025

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'Drew me in like a whirlpool' NICOLA DINAN

'A beautiful fever dream' KRISTEN ARNETT

'Highly seductive ... and fun as hell!' TONY TULATHIMUTTE

'Brittany Newell is truly one to watch' EMMA JANE UNSWORTH

'Incredible ... romantic, dangerous and sexy' KATIE BUCKLEY

A hottest book of 2025 in Sunday Times Style, Dazed and Stylist

A blazing novel following a young woman on a wild, hallucinogenic quest for love and selfhood in San Francisco's seedy underground.

Baby is a dancer at a strip club and at the age of 27, she's feeling lost. It seems that only Dino, her sweet, cross-dressing, drug-dealing ex-boyfriend can keep her afloat. So, when Dino disappears without so much as a kiss goodbye, she plunges headfirst into San Francisco's shady erotic underground to find him.

Baby searches through dive bars and old haunts, at the club and at the sex dungeon where she has a part-time dominatrix gig. She encounters clients like Simon, a recluse paying her for increasingly bizarre 'favours' and a philosophizing suicide fetishist named 'Nobody', as well as co-workers like Emeline, the balletic new hire who seems to want to steal Baby's whole identity, starting with her underwear.

It's not long before she starts to find cryptic notes hidden in her belongings and realises her search is attracting the wrong kind of attention. With her grip on reality loosening and the clock ticking, will Baby manage to put together the pieces and find the only man she's ever loved? Or might her past catch up with her first?

Manically smart, brutally funny and deeply sexy, Soft Core is a book about desire, fantasy and true love - like no other.

'For the generation whose life is an endless stream of dead-end Hinge dates' Sunday Times Style

'Funny, sexy and surprising, I loved it' Pip Finkemeyer, author of Sad Girl Novel

'A profound look at sex work and lives unusually lived'Dazed

Brittany Newell's Soft Core is a top pick for those seeking a blend of romance, friendship, and a touch of BDSM. This humorous and erotic tale is a testament to Newell's literary prowess, making it one of the best up-coming stories of the year.

For fans of Nell Hudson (Just For Today)

HarperCollins 2025

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