Synopses & Reviews
A multi-layered and provocative view of 60s counterculture seen through the eyes of call girl Jilly OSullivan, based on diaries kept by the authors real mother. Tainted Love charts Jillys ‘progress from 16-year-old hostess in a gentlemans club in Londons Soho right through to flirting with Black Power activists and mixing with the likes of Alexander Trocchi, Brian Jones and John Lennon in the seedy drug culture of the Notting Hill hippie community. This is the story of what happened to the flower children after the party was over.
Review
‘Home is reconfiguring books as explosive elements – pages so stuffed with ideas that they might go off in your hands - Independent