I read this this week and I absolutely loved it. It's a novel about three women – two of them are sex workers and one is a journalist, set in contemporary London. It's a deeply feminist novel that takes the realities of women's lives really seriously. It reminds me a bit of Edith Wharton's novel The House Of Mirth in that they are both very clear-eyed critiques of the structures that constrain women's lives as well as being full of empathy for the characters and taking a funny, satirical look at the society that is being depicted.
I also heard the author interviewed in Women's Hour on friday which was a nice surprise (I was most of the way through the book by then). You can listen to the interview here www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000y1fb – it starts about 38 minutes in.
This is also a good conversation with the author www.vice.com/en/article/n7b7eq/the-service-captures-the-messy-and-mundane-realities-of-sex-work-in-the-uk
Has anyone else read this yet? What did you think?