A curious scheme is afoot in Blighty. Attempting to tackle spiralling levels of crime and anti-social behaviour, the government has a new solution: to dye offenders purple. For once, even journalist Eve Baxter is shocked - she's spent years gathering the world's weird and wacky news, but has ne
People, Places & Things
✍ Scribed by Duncan MacMillan
- Publisher
- OBERON BOOKS Ltd
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 50 KB
- Edition
- Reprinted with revisions
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
'Drugs and alcohol have never let me down. They have always loved me. There are substances I can put into my bloodstream that make the world perfect. That is the only absolute truth in the universe. I'm being difficult because you want to take it away from me.'
Emma was having the time of her life. Now she's in rehab.
Her first step is to admit that she has a problem. But the problem isn't with Emma, it's with everything else. She needs to tell the truth. But she's smart enough to know that there's no such thing.
When intoxication feels like the only way to survive the modern world, how can she ever sober up?
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