Lean Cat, Savage Cat: 'A salacious romp of breathtaking self-invention and spectacular self-destruction' - SERVICE95

A Talented Mr Ripley for contemporary Berlin: a twisting, sensual, heady and razor-sharp exploration of creativity, fame, desire and the divided self‘Riotous and raunchy ... a salacious romp of breathtaking self-invention and spectacular self-destruction’ Service95‘The book that’s been missing from my reading habits: classically glamourous, timelessly seductive’ Torrey Peters‘An erotic spectacular of self-creation and spiralling disintegration’ Olivia Laing____________________________________________________Charli has finished art school and now has no idea what to do with her life.She’s broke, disillusioned and her flatmates hate her.One night at a bar in Soho, however, everything changes when she first encounters the charismatic musician Alexander Geist. Androgynous, glamorously handsome, mysterious and just a little sinister, he feels something like a soul mate; and so when he heads off to Berlin, Charli follows.There, at the centre of the city’s febrile party scene, Charli and Alex