Jamie Noise is an artist, photographer, and filmmaker whose distinctive style blends vintage aesthetics with vibrant contemporary glamour. Driven by a love of storytelling, his photographs weave intriguing narratives around a cast of strikingly beautiful but mysterious characters. Dominic Jay is a former arts journalist. His professional life gave him privileged access to people and places that are usually off limits. The material for this, his second novel, was collected over many years. Many of the scenes and characters are drawn from life. As he says, ’all writers are voyeurs’.