Sex is Forbidden - Softcover

Parks, Tim

3.05

264 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099565897 ISBN 13: 9780099565895

Publisher: Vintage, 2013

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Sex is forbidden at the Dasgupta Institute. So what is the sparkling, magnetically attractive Beth Marriot doing here? Beth is fighting demons: a catastrophic series of events has undermined all prospect of happiness. Trauma leaves her no alternative but to bury herself in the austere asceticism of a community that wakes at 4am, doesn't permit eye contact, let alone speech, and keeps men and women strictly segregated. But the curious self dies hard. Conflicted and wayward, Beth stumbles on a diary and cannot keep away from it, or the man who wrote it.

Originally published with the title The Server

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Review:

"It's a cracker - clever, funny and insightful, with complicated, conflicted and totally convincing Beth at heart" (Harry Ritchie Daily Mail)

"Parks writes with detachment, wit and intelligence, and the troubled voice in Beth is entirely convincing" (Kate Saunders The Times)

"A wry and subtle story about what happens when the western self tries to lose itself." (Kathryn Hughes Prospect)

"An eminently readable and thought-provoking novel that teases you to the last page, and possibly beyond" (Marcus Berkmann Spectator)

"Quirky, witty and deep" (Todd McEwen Sunday Herald)

Book Description:

A gripping and perceptive novel about the trials of self-discovery by one of our most highly acclaimed writers.

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