Hazel met Byron when she replaced the journalist who was supposed to interview him after a talk he did at her college.
Anyway, she’s there now, and was slightly disgusted at meeting her dad’s new ‘companion’ whom he’s christened Diane her mother died a few years previously. She left with only a single suitcase, devoid of any electronics or gadgets, because Byron is a tech multimillionaire – the owner of Gogol (yes!), and she wants to be as untraceable as possible (although don’t you think he’d come looking for her at her father’s?). The main story is that of Hazel, who has run away from her husband Byron, hoping to stay with her father in his trailer. Okay, that’s not so shocking really, but does set you up for expecting more to come.
Its arrival crate bore an uncanny resemblance to a no-frills pine coffin. The kind designed to provide a sexual experience that came as close as possible to having sex with a living (or maybe, Hazel thought, a more apt analogy was a very-very-recently deceased) female. Hazel’s seventy-six-year-old father had bought a doll. Made for Love, first published in 2017, now in paperback is her second novel and is no less confrontational, you know she’s not afraid to shock right from the opening lines:
I was also persuaded to read a book about some rather unconventional kinds of love…Īlissa Nutting is the author of the provocatively covered Tampa, a Lolita-in-reverse novel I’ve heard so much about, but not actually read. Tampa and some other similarly provocative covers!
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