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In California, Holly receives a pile of typed paper from a rehabilitation clinic in England. Her former lover, Mike, is confessing everything that he hadn’t told her before the events that destroyed their relationship. Mike’s childhood friend Sherbert, now a BBC producer, asks him to put money into the Millennial TV series “Shooting Europe” . Mike sees this as a way back to England, and an escape from his miserable entrapment in Los Angeles with Mopsa Greene, California’s most extreme schlock concept artist. The possessive and vengeful Mopsa pursues him and script editor Holly to New York, then London, where attacks on them begin. These echo the story-lines from the TV series, and Mike realises that Mopsa is being helped by someone on the production team. Grotesque schlock climaxes in The Serpentine Gallery and the Millennium Dome lead to three deaths and Mike’s long-term trauma. Now recovering, he longs to connect with Holly once more. Mike’s and Holly’s amusing and often sad narratives contain fascinating insights into extreme concept art and the making of a TV docu-drama series. ‘Takes a wrecking-ball to the modern art movement. A high-paced, beautifully observed satire, and marvellous piece of brash and outrageous, with a delicious freak-show of characters.’ (Michael Reeves). Simon Potter’s published work includes technical non-fiction, fiction, literary studies, poetry, history, and articles for magazines. He writes, adapts and directs plays for young people, is a member of the Society of Authors, and was awarded an MBE in 2016. Also available on Amazon.co.uk as a paperback book.

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