The Lost Art of Sinking

Description

This is the story of Esther, who lives in the Pennines with her father. Esther is obsessed with experimenting with different ways to pass out: from snorting Daz powder at school to attempted autoasphyxiation in a serviced apartment in north London. But what happens when you take something too far? And what has Esther’s mother, a beautiful dancer wasting away in her bedroom, to do with it all?

‘Naomi Booth’s The Lost Art of Sinking is beautifully written, funny, mischievous and touching. A deeply engaging dramatisation of the strange ‘art’ of fainting, swooning, passing out, it also has what very few contemporary works of fiction have – an arresting, self-assured and compelling narrative voice’
-Nicholas Royle

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