Wet Ink
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Wet Ink
A story of community strength, embracing ambition, and female desire: Stuck in a loveless marriage in 1969, Mitzy Barlow focuses her attentions on building a Tupperware empire by slipping erotic short stories in with her orders, accidentally sparking a feminist revolution among the housewives of her London suburb as a result.
Housewife and mother of two, Mitzy Barlow is tired of the stifling monotony of her everyday life. With a husband who brushes off all affection and a routine that leaves her bored out of her mind, playing pretend is no longer enough.
To help make ends meet, she hosts Tupperware parties, selling plastic promises of the perfect home. But her true escape has always come when scribbling fantasies in her journal each night to soothe the ache of a loveless marriage.
Soon she begins typing up her own stories, rewriting the endings of classic novels with bolder and steamier scenes, much to the delight of the neighbourhood women who start sending in requests of their own. Under the safety of her new pseudonym 'Queen B', Mitzy creates an air-tight system to deliver her erotica, slipping stories into Tupperware containers and taking discreet orders at her parties.
Demand is high, and as her secret career starts to blossom, Mitzy allows herself to dream of a different kind of life. But when whispers of indecent, unmotherly conduct start to spread that could put her family's livelihood at risk, is Mitzy too naΓ―ve in thinking she can rewrite the ending of her own story before it's too late?
Blending wit, warmth, and rebellion, Wet Ink is a story of desire and embracing ambition, set in 1969 London, in which the indomitable Mitzy Barlow builds a Tupperware empire by slipping erotic short stories in with her orders, accidentally sparking a feminist revolution among the housewives of her London suburb.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781399759779
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 25 February 2027
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Hodder & Stoughton
Illustration: N/A
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 153.0mm
Height: 234.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 400
About the Author
Abigail Avis is a London-based author with a keen interest in women that fell between the cracks of the swinging sixties, especially those who initiated domestic revolutions in surprising and brilliant ways. Her love of saucy stories began early, sneaking books from the adult section of the library as a curious pre-teen and she still proudly uses the Tupperware inherited from her Nan's 1960s party stash. She has two young children, and studied and taught English literature before entering a fellowship with the Royal Literary Fund, which facilitated the writing of Wet Ink.
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