Fishnet, Kirstin Innes
Fishnet, Kirstin Innes
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Fishnet

Author: Kirstin Innes

Narrator: Rebecca Hamilton

Unabridged: 8 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/15/2019


Synopsis

A “thoughtful, bruising, poignant, and poetic” (Ian Rankin) debut in which a woman’s search for her missing sister leads her into the world of contemporary sex work.

Rona Leonard was only twenty-years-old when she walked out of her sister Fiona’s flat and disappeared.

Six years later—worn down by a tedious job, childcare, and an aching absence in her life—Fiona’s mundane existence is blown apart by the revelation that Rona had been working as a prostitute before she vanished. Driven to discover the truth, Fiona embarks on an obsessive quest to investigate the sex industry that claimed her sister. However, as she is drawn into this complex world, Fiona finds herself seduced by the power it offers women in a society determined to see them only as victims.

In bold, unflinching prose, Fishnet offers a clear-eyed look at the lives of sex workers, questioning our perception of contemporary femininity and challenging assumptions about power, vulnerability, and choice.

About Kirstin Innes

Kirstin Innes is an award-winning writer, journalist and arts worker living in the west of Scotland. She founded the Glasgow literary salon Words Per Minute, and has had short stories published in a number of anthologies and commissioned by BBC Radio 4. Kirstin has won the Allen Wright Award for Excellence in Arts Journalism twice.


Reviews

Book Reviewed by Stacey on www.whisperingstories.com It’s been six years since Fiona Leonard’s younger sister Rona arrived at her flat with her new baby daughter and then left leaving her child behind. No-one has seen or heard from her since and Fiona has been left bringing up her niece on her own as......more

From the synopsis, I thought this book sounded really interesting, but I was disappointed. It was not the mystery I was expecting. The chapters jumped back and forth on different timelines with no indication of what time in Fiona's life they were actually talking about... you just had to figure it o......more

Goodreads review by Theresa

This is a difficult novel to read for two reasons: The subject matter and the way the story is told. I’ve read a couple other books about the sex industry over the years, and those were hard to read, too, even if I do wish that, like apparently is the case in Scotland, it was decriminalized in the U......more

Goodreads review by Dennis

I wanted to hold off on reading Kirstin Innes' novel, Fishnet, for as long as possible because it isn't released in the United States until October 15, but this cover really kept staring at me and I caved. I have to give kudos to the designer for the cover design because it's honestly one of the......more

Goodreads review by Frank

I was really really excited for this book and really really wanted to enjoy it, but the writing was thoroughly confusing, moving from first to third person tense every few chapters, as well as back and forth from present to past (I think anyway?). I found myself completely lost on who was who, and w......more