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  Jaz isn’t planning to lose any sleep over it – at least until he meets the guy of his dreams at the local gay bar. Suddenly things are a lot more complicated …

  ‘Will Davis is a witty writer who effortlessly conjures up the frenetic detail of Jaz’s sixteen-year-old world’

  Independent on Sunday

  ‘The dialogue fizzes with savvy one-liners … Davis’s observations of the dysfunctions of family and school are as sharp as his prose is fresh, and his debut is intriguing, touching and entertaining’

  Time Out

  Dream Machine

  Four girls. A thousand desperate dreams. One shot at stardom...

  Across the country wannabes are auditioning to be part of mega-girlband Purrfect in a new reality TV series. Among them are ice-queen Louise, who thinks she’s got God on her side, foulmouthed Joni, desperate to hide the fact that she’s got a baby, mousy teen Ella, obsessed with her stepmother’s boyfriend, and cocky Riana, a stripper with a naughty penchant for coke. Each one is determined to be the new Purrfect girl. But as the show progresses it seems someone has a very different sort of agenda in mind – someone who’s not afraid of things getting deadly...

  ‘A clever contemporary tale which shows that sometimes what you dream of isn't what you really want ... a great beach read’ Bookseller

  ‘A sharp, witty novel ... More salacious than you could ever hope for’ Gay Times

  First published in Great Britain 2012

  This electronic edition published in April 2012 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

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