Debut Novel: Bareback

Lola Galley is used to doing things she doesn’t want. She certainly doesn’t want to be assigned the case of Richard Ellaway, the man who, under a cold full moon, mutilated a good friend of hers. But being a bareback, what she wants and what she gets are seldom the same.

For those born feet-first, life is comfortable, and one night a month they lock themselves in a secure room to fur up in peace. Barebacks, trapped in their human skin and drafted at eighteen into the Department for the Ongoing Regulation of Lycanthropic Activity, don’t have it so easy. A full moon means patrolling the silent night in search of transformed citizens breaking the curfew. The rest of the month, DORLA agents mop up the after-effects of the trespasses, the fights and the maulings.

Resignedly, she takes the case – but before Ellaway can be tried, her maimed friend is murdered. Lola wants justice. She'll settle for the truth. But in a divided world, asking for the truth may bring answers that you don't want to hear.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Kit Whitfield was born in 1977 to an English father and an Irish mother. She grew up in London and is a graduate of the Creative Writing course at UEA. Bareback is her first novel, the film rights of which have been sold to Warner Bros for an undisclosed six-figure sum, with Graham King (Gangs of New York, The Aviator) to produce and Andrew Adamson (The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, Shrek) to direct.

In her time, Kit has trained as a chef and a masseur, as well as working as a website editor, quote hunter, toy shop assistant and publisher.

BAREBACK
Author: Kit Whitfield
Publisher: Vintage
Publication date: 18th January 2007
Price: £6.99