The First Girl in Hell

It is 1940 and Hollywood is reeling from the Hays Code: a harsh corrective to the debauchery of the 1920s, blacklisting performers deemed 'unsuitable for the public' due to their promiscuity, hedonism or wayward sexuality. Enter Lucinda Blight, an out-of-work actor - her reputation precedes her. She harbours a vendetta against the Little Prick who penned the code, both for stunting her career and for stealing away the woman she loves, and he is about to find out that Lucinda can be a Blight by name and by nature. A whirlwind neo-western, The First Girl in Hell is spritely and subversive, a novel of debased glamour, fortified by booze and revenge.