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Unsworth studied English Literature at the University of Liverpool [3] and graduated with an MA from Manchester University's Centre for New Writing. Actually, that’s not entirely true - Edward St Aubyn’s Bad News is incredibly funny and that’s essentially just describing a weekend-long drug binge. Laura describes her friendship with Tyler as “kinship, or une affinité profonde; that doppelganger effect that can go either way: to mutual understanding or mutual destruction.

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Laura and Tyler are two women whose twenties have been a blur of overstayed parties, a fondness for drugs that has shifted from cautious experimentation to catholic indulgence, and hangovers that don't relent until Monday morning. My only disappointment was the flow of the narrative which I felt got lost along the way, almost to the point of being rush towards an ending. It isn't until around 200 pages in that something actually happens besides the two best friends going out and getting drunk/taking drugs every night, which to be honest does become tiresome. Onward into the night we go (and the next night, and the next)—hilarious drunken storytelling, preposterous coked-up dancing, agonizing ecstasy-fueled bedroom hijinks.I found myself savouring the final pages because I could see that the end was going to be put upon me quite abruptly. Despite the really codependent and toxic relationship between Laura and Tyler as they live in squalor and chaos, you can’t help but root for them and wanting them to overcome their aggressive self-destruction and addiction. Though the characters were on the "unlikable" side of the spectrum, I still found myself rooting for them. Various events in each of their lives unfold, with questions about life, and especially women's roles, raised and explored both implicitly and explicitly. I just found it hard to like, but maybe it's because I've personally think different about "partying".

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The women find themselves getting chased out of an underground Spanish speakeasy after their friend insults a dwarf; at some point Laura’s work not-in-progress Bacon becomes Killing the Changes, ‘because that’s more mysterious and I want the book to be mysterious and complex even though its about the simplest thing really and that’s love’, her retreat into abstraction reflecting her difficulty in engaging with the reality of her life.Claiming her phone is dead, Tyler has Laura exchange numbers with Marty, who later sends her a picture of his erect penis. Por poner un ejemplo, la actitud que mantiene Laura respecto a su delicada situación familiar no la veo justificable excepto si viene de una adolescente de 14 años. Laurie Penny’s recent essay Cybersexism argued that while many women of her generation had found a voice through online forums, the rise of digital communication had also allowed for a renewed public scrutiny of women’s behaviour – the recent controversy over Women Who Eat on the Tube being the latest example.