Tainted Love

A multi-layered and provocative view of 60s counterculture seen through the eyes of call girl Jilly O’Sullivan, based on diaries kept by the author’s real mother. Tainted Love charts Jilly’s ‘progress’ from 16-year-old hostess in a gentleman’s club in London’s Soho right through to flirting with Black Power activists and mixing with the likes of Alexander Trocchi, Brian Jones and John Lennon in the seedy drug culture of the Notting Hill hippie community. This is the story of what happened to the flower children after the party was over.

A multi-layered and provocative view of 60s counterculture seen through the eyes of call girl Jilly O’Sullivan, based on diaries kept by the author’s real mother. Tainted Love charts Jilly’s ‘progress’ from 16-year-old hostess in a gentleman’s club in London’s Soho right through to flirting with Black Power activists and mixing with the likes of Alexander Trocchi, Brian Jones and John Lennon in the seedy drug culture of the Notting Hill hippie community. This is the story of what happened to the flower children after the party was over.

Stewart Home is an intellectual enfant terrible of the post-punk art movement and cult writing circuit. The author of over 20 novels and famous for elaborate hoaxes and agit-prop art events, he is often referred to as the English successor to Burroughs. He lives in London.