Controller

Shortlisted for Route s Next Great Yorkshire Novelist Competition Shortlisted for Sabotage Review s Saboteur Awards Best Novella He stands. Slack thud of the drawing pad, dropping onto the floor. His dry shadow, solid and smooth, begins to lap up the oil-slick puddles of sunshine that are around my feet. From my view his broad shoulders block out light, white and blind from the window. How far would you go to satisfy your desires Sex and punishment, art and exploitation, Controller is the debut novella from one of the UK s finest young writers. A young traveller finds herself in Northern Spain, working as an artist s model. As her relationship with the artist deepens and darkens, her experience of the city, those around her and the nature of art and desire change.