Sedating Elaine is a tale about broken hearts, bad decisions and unresolved childhood trauma told with dry, dark humour.

Young Londoner, Francis drinks and takes drugs to avoid her feelings, problems and a girlfriend she doesn’t really want. Inevitably the drugs become her problem when she finds herself in debt to her drug dealer for a lot of money she doesn’t have. Her job in a restaurant won’t raise what she needs before her dealer comes good on his threat and sends his debt collectors around to teach Francis a lesson.

This is the problem when a person makes everyone feel special; it means none of them are special.

Francis is still hung up on the last girlfriend who dumped her. She doesn’t particularly like her current sex crazed girlfriend Elaine who she picked up at a bar one night and has been hanging around ever since. But she asks Elaine to move in and pay rent so she can pay off her debt.

Francis was the sort of person who accumulated incredibly short, intense relationships that ended explosively, beyond repair, well beyond salvaging a friendship

When Elaine moves in with all her stuff and her noise, Francis starts to be driven mad. She craves quiet and alone time, so she decides to drug Elaine to keep her quiet until she’s paid her debt. Then she’ll dump her.

Elaine greeted her at the door wearing g a face of concern and nothing else.

The morally unhinged cringeworthy protagonist in Sedating Elaine will take you on an outrageous rollicking ride through her dysfunctional life. The debut novel was an easy, if uncomfortable read that had me laughing inappropriately all the way through.