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  • Published: 1 May 2014
  • ISBN: 9781473511224
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 13 hr 24 min
  • Narrators: Lorelei King, Penelope Rawlins
  • RRP: $24.99

The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins




The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins taps into two great obsessions of our time, personal training regimes and real estate – how we look and where we live – and tells a story so subversive and dark it blacks out the Florida sun. Available now as an audiobook.

When Lucy Brennan, a Miami Beach personal-fitness trainer, disarms a gunman chasing two frightened homeless men, the police and the breaking-news cameras are not far behind and, within hours, Lucy is a media hero. The solitary eye-witness is the depressed and overweight Lena Sorensen, who becomes obsessed with Lucy and signs up as her client – though she seems more interested in the trainer’s body than her own. When the two women find themselves more closely aligned, and can’t stop thinking about the sex lives of Siamese twins, the real problems start...

In the aggressive, foul-mouthed trainer, Lucy Brennan, and the needy, manipulative Lena Sorensen, Irvine Welsh has created two of his most memorable female protagonists, and one of the most bizarre, sado-masochistic folies à deux in contemporary fiction. Featuring murder, depravity and revenge – and enormous amounts of food and sex – The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins taps into two great obsessions of our time – how we look and where we live – and tells a story so subversive and dark it blacks out the Florida sun.

Warning: contains explicit content.

  • Published: 1 May 2014
  • ISBN: 9781473511224
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 13 hr 24 min
  • Narrators: Lorelei King, Penelope Rawlins
  • RRP: $24.99

About the author

Irvine Welsh

Irvine Welsh is the author of eleven previous novels and four books of shorter fiction. He currently lives in Chicago.

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Praise for The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins

[Welsh] has never written with greater verve... This is a novel packed with energy.

Tom Adair, Scotsman

Proof [Welsh] can write convincingly about experiences suitably removed from his own.

David Pollock, Independent

Razor-sharp prose... Both Lucy and Lena dazzle in this hugely entertaining read.

Kevin Scott, List

Boisterous, exuberant.

Sunday Times

A compelling read.

Russell Leadbetter, Glasgow Sunday Herald

Shady, crazy and dark.

Shortlist

Not only cleverly conceived but genuinely, hauntingly, transgressive.

Sandra Newman, Guardian

This is a visceral romp of a novel, a manic endorphin rush of a read that nevertheless also manages to sneak in some serious commentary on the state of American society, putting this book right up there with the best of Irvine Welsh’s work.

Doug Johnstone, Independent on Sunday

A darkly funny novel with well-drawn characters.

UK Press Syndication

Boisterous, exuberant.

Sunday Times

Shady, crazy and dark.

Shortlist

A compulsive read.

John Sunyer, Financial Times

Welsh doesn’t disappoint… Bag yourself a ringside seat.

Elena Seymenliyska, Daily Telegraph

Never has filth been such fun – Welsh at his wicked best.

Sebastian Shakespeare, Tatler

Welsh’s words fizz and burn with energy… It’s crude, hot, vulgar and irreverent, but not in a smut-for-smut’s sake way – this is intellectualized scatology, scatology made into high-art… Welsh’s grist is, and always has been, to show the ugly truth of exactly who we are, with breath-taking beauty. And in that, he remains peerless.

Bookmunch

Readers should not let the incessant onslaught of obscenity distract them from…Welsh’s poignant and well-meaning message.

Yorker

Irvine Welsh maintains a breakneck pace…engaging the reader completely.

Sarla Langdon, Bay