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BUSY BEING BORN

Laur ence Seidler

ISBN 978-1-83574-032-3

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Publication: 27 SEPTEMBER 2024
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ISBN: 9781835740323
Price: £9.99
Binding: Paperback

Format: 198 x 129 mm
Extent: 336 pp
Thema: FBA Fiction

Author location: Andalucia
Book location: London

• A gripping fictionalised autobiography
following a young Cambridge graduate in the
sex working industry.
• Set against the backdrop of 1980s London.
• Praise for Busy Being Born: ‘Seidler is a gifted
writer. His new book deserves a wide audience
for its imaginative and powerful writing that
pulls you in and leaves you wanting more.’
Andrew Trimbee, former Daily Telegraph
journalist and author of The Inshallah Paper.
Son of a casino boss and a courtesan, Laurence Seidler grew up in
Africa before studying History at Cambridge. He pursued numerous Busy Being Born charts the rise and fall of a young graduate
professions including TV ad director, journalist, architect, robotics working in the sex trade. Read wide-eyed as Lady Trocknell
developer, scrap metal dealer and sex worker. Laurence now lives introduces our hero to the pleasures of service, recoil at the
as a recluse with his wife, son, and various reptiles in the Sierra antics of a bevy of bankers, and share in the sorrow of his
Nevada mountains of Andalucía, where he writes full time. Busy eventual fall from grace. Humanity is laid bare and
Being Born is his first English novel. dissected in this extraordinary, fictionalised autobiography
where intellect, compassion, and outrageous flights of
fantasy somehow work together to create literary magic.

Set in 1980s London, each chapter recreates another
episode in the author's journey through the dark underbelly
of human desire. However, the portrayal of sex, while real
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Orders: Troubador Publishing
Tradeorders@troubador.co.uk Clever, provocative, and resilient, Busy Being Born is a
0116 279 2299 living gauntlet where the reader is as likely to laugh as to
cry.
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without notice. 12/04/2024