Celine Saintclare

Sugar, Baby (MP3-Download)

Ungekürzte Lesung. 571 Min.
Sprecher: Novak, Sara

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Produktbeschreibung

Bloomsbury presents Sugar, Baby by Celine Saintclare, read by Sara Novak. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2024 BY VOGUE, ELLE, NYLON, NPR, PURE WOW, SHONDALAND, BOOK RIOT and more! In the vein of Luster and Queenie, an unflinching portrayal of high-paid sex work in the age of the internet—an intoxicating, bold debut from a dazzling new voice. Sugar, Baby follows Agnes, a mixed-race 21-year-old whose life seems to be heading nowhere. Still living at home, she works as a cleaner and spends all her money in clubs on the weekends searching for distractions from her mundane life. That is until she meets Emily, daughter of one of her cleaning clients, who lives in London and works as a model . . . and a sugar baby, dating rich older men for money. Emily's life is the escape Agnes has been longing for—extravagant tasting menus, champagne on tap, glamorous hotels with unlimited room service, designer gifts from dates who call her beautiful. But this new lifestyle is the last straw for her religious mother Constance. Kicked out of her family home, Agnes moves in with Emily and the other sugar babies in their fancy London flat and is drawn deeper and deeper into their world. But these women come from money: they possess a safety net Agnes does not. And as she is thrown from one precarious relationship to the next—a married man who wants to show off the glamourous, exotic girl on his arm; a Russian billionaire's wife who makes Agnes central to a sex party in Miami—she finds herself searching for fulfillment just as desperately as she was before. A compelling journey of self-discovery that offers sharp commentary on race, beauty, and class, Sugar, Baby is an electric, original, spellbinding novel that will keep readers turning the pages until the very end.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Januar 2024
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781639732531
• Artikelnr.: 70214776

Autorenporträt

Celine Saintclare has English and Caribbean heritage and was born and raised in Buckinghamshire. She spent the majority of her early life training to be a ballet dancer and filling up notebooks with stories and poems. Celine is inspired to write about the pain and beauty of navigating life as a young woman today and about people whose lifestyles defy mainstream societal values.

Rezensionen

Sugar, Babydepicts the glittering world of the young women who make a kind of living by showing up at clubs and restaurants to burnish their associations with youth and beauty. Are these women being taken advantage of—or are they on the ride of their lives? This personable novel . . . doesn't come down on one side of the equation. Instead, it shows the grit alongside the glamor, and crafts a very believable story that feels like a document of the moment, when image is a valuable and fleeting currency.