Prairie Oyster - Paperback

by Sophie Robinson (Author)

Pearl is a thirty-something filmmaker balanced precariously on the edge of an addiction-fueled breakdown. But when she is invited to interview her idol and crush, lesbian cult filmmaker Mitch Meyer, her stilted life restarts.

Buoyed and seduced by Mitch's interest in her and her work, Pearl swaps alcoholism for romantic obsession and London for a summer in New York with Mitch. All the while she is haunted by a project she has been toying with for years: a film about Veronica Lake, a 1940s film star who drank herself into obscurity.

Author Biography

Sophie Robinson is author of Rabbit. Her work has been published in Granta, The Guardian, Stylist, BOMB Magazine, The Believer, n+1, The Poetry Review, and The White Review. She runs Devotion, a radical and inclusive online creative writing workshop series, and publishes regular essays on her Substack, Feelings Almanac. She lives in Norwich, England.