The Fix

'VERY INTELLIGENT AND VERY FUNNY' SARA PASCOE
'AN OUTSTANDING DEBUT' MARY BETH KEANE
'UTTERLY GRIPPING' DAISY BUCHANAN

I am sitting in the waiting room of a London clinic. In ten minutes I will have an injection that, I am assured, will erase the last twenty years from my face. It's quiet in here, and the light is golden. I'm not sure I believe this is possible . . .

Forty-five-year-old Julia is a flailing freelance journalist, as invisible at work as she is at home, until a dream commission promises to transform her career. A pioneering anti-ageing drug is poised to launch in the UK, claiming to turn back the clock. One quick injection, and Julia can throw off the shackles of middle-age and make headlines in the country's most respected newspaper.

But as the fix takes effect, Julia finds herself newly visible, and when her own needs and desires rise to the fore, life spins into chaos. Her husband is blindsided, her daughters appalled, her best friend ecstatic. But is looking young the same as being young? And once you've spent your youth, what is the cost of getting it back?

Provocative, resonant and funny, The Fix is a story of power and patriarchy, family and autonomy, and how we reconcile the person we once were with the person we've become.

'POWERFUL AND FUNNY AND BRILLIANTLY IMAGINED' HOLLY GRAMAZIO
'I COULDN'T PUT IT DOWN' ELLIE LEVENSON
'A TRIUMPH' JO HARKIN