"Irvine Walsh...had he been born with a silver spoon up his nose." Metro

"Mighty good." Sunday Herald

"Spens writes beautifully about the taste for oblivion, the temptation of the abyss, the alluring mystery of nothingness. Truth is its soul and brevity its body." Sebastian Horsley

"Razor-sharp prose that's soaked with authenticity." Anna David

The Wrecking Ball calls on the author’s experience of the music scene in London and America, which she has reported on for online rock magazines for the last two years. A world made up of bright young things who don’t sleep, who live for parties and music and drugs, and whose lives forever teeter on the edge of destruction.

With echoes of F Scott Fitzgerald, The Wrecking Ball defines the culture right now.

Christiana Spens is a student at Cambridge University. Her family home is in Scotland.

Details

• ISBN 9781905636198
• Publication date: 1st May 2008
• Size: B format paperback 198mm x 129mm
• Pages: 320
• RRP: £7.99

Rights information

World

US rights sold to Harper Perennial