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wotcha, by Kevin Saunders

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Wotcha’ a contraction of the 15th century English greeting ‘what chere be with you?’ Watcher n a person who watches or observes somebody or something. A voyeur. Say WOTCHA! to Bart Raines, who’s condemned forever to be a watcher after a childhood prank left his eyelid glued to his beloved telescope. Stuck with one eye that can’t not see, he’s turned voyeurism into a lucrative blackmail industry. Say WOTCHA! to former rock star, avid coke fiend, Richard ‘Winston’ Smith who’s watched by millions among them erstwhile school friend Bart, who’s orchestrating revenge for Winston’s teenage betrayal through the sinister global surveillance network he calls the Daisy Chain. Say WOTCHA! to high class whore Daisy Chains (neé Raines) and her teenage son Joe, who’s abducted along with his girlfriend by a sinister ‘Christian’ cult, which leaves the kids to die, hogtied and helpless in a derelict drainage tunnel slowly filling with sewage. Watched by the world’s media, Winston, Daisy and Bart reunite to use fame and the Daisy Chain to save two teenage lives and their own souls from the filth that’s about to drown them. Wotcha! is a comic spit in the eye of born again zealots with a wink and a twinkle to the rest of us but it’s also deadly serious. Mining a rich seam of coalblack humour and sex, drugs and rock and roll, it starts on a bittersweet nostalgia trip and builds up to the pace of a thriller. CONTROVERSIAL STUFF? Its themes and explicit language make this a candidate for one of those ‘parental advisory’ stickers they put on CDs these days. Does that make WOTCHA! a book that people aged under sixteen shouldn’t read? In the author’s opinion absolutely not. ‘If rude words and references to sex, drugs and rock and roll upset you per se, this book’s not for you. But if you believe, as I do, that a sense of humour is what separates “naughty” from “evil”, I think you might enjoy this story, laugh at the funny bits, think about the serious bits and read the redemption between the lines.’

wotcha, by Kevin Saunders

• Published on: 2015-03-20
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.00" h x .84" w x 6.00" l, 1.09 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 334 pages

wotcha, by Kevin Saunders

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. London 80's revisited! By Vanessa Rogers Anyone who loves Ashes to Ashes should read this! An eighties washed up rock star who will do anything for cash finds himself in the middle of a frantic dash to save the son he has never met. I love it; from the seedy, coke head hero (who I want to marry), to the nasty, but vulnerable Bart. Through it all is the glorious, sexy Daisy. The music references are spot on (as they should be), the clothes are cool and the vibe created of a Punk inspired London has made me very happy, thank you.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. A debut novel that has everything By Nelly B That corny but useful little accolade 'unputdownable' could succinctly say it all about Kev Saunders' debut novel 'Wotcha!', but it doesn't really do justice to this gem of a book, because Mr Saunders can write, I mean, he can genuinely, most definitely WRITE. This is quality stuff, from the opening chapter, with its beautifully vivid but troubling portrait of a family walk in a bleak coastal landscape (amidst the stench of seaweed and wood rot and those rusty padlocks you can already smell the sickness of the human psyche), to the final fast-moving chapters that offer an exhilarating and macabre carnival of rescue, redemption and revenge - it's more than a racy romp through a sticky web of lies and lives.The story is excellently crafted, masterfully controlled (even with the electric blue language) and gorgeously and most lustfully written. There is a slick cinematic feel in its artful episodic weave. Imaginative creations aside, Kev Saunders seems to write about what he knows, about people and places he knows and has known. The author's voice is authoritative, his characters' voices authentic. There is lewdness mixed with lyricism, real pathos amidst the pantomime, narcotics laced with narcissism, vicious humour cavorting with extreme voyeurism. And, it has to be said, this book is funny.Our hero, one-time rock star Richard `Winston' Smith is the central character and lynchpin for all other supporting characters with their narrative perspectives. This somewhat debauched, arrogant but witty, incorrigible but `lovable rogue' has (just about) survived the hedonistic and cynical world of late 20th century sex, drugs and rock `n' roll only to enter - alas, hedonist and deeper-cynic still - a darker, more twisted and sadistic world, one which is brilliantly and intricately linked up with the brutal events, liaisons and secrecies of the past. Smith, in a suitably surreal, corrupt, clumsy yet poetic fashion, acquires a motley crew of characters around him - wild, eccentric, ruthless, loyal, greedy, kind, callous, vain, scheming, naïve, vulnerable...Bit by bit, grim truths are revealed and it takes a clever conspiracy employing perverse professional deviancies of one kind to uncover another - and the nature of this other, though horrific, is handled in an honest, sensitive and perceptive way by Saunders.While poor Rich Smith is unequivocally our good bloke with a heart - despite his troubled soul and addictive tendencies - the richer and ruthless Bart Raines, victim-turned-vengeful-voyeur, is possibly one of the most original, disturbing, repellent yet compelling characters you'll ever encounter in a (post-) post-modern novel. Although not the true villain of the story, he is, in soul and incarnate, born from a deadly centre of unspeakable corruption, and those roots he nurtures through his earth-world of employees and enemies and his ether-world of the Internet.The pace never lets up, although the shifts from one narrative voice to another and the time travel across decades and generations allow us breadth of vision and breathing spaces. The dialogue in the novel is varied and the author avoids the danger of over-indulging his foulmouth fest of word-pun, quip, cheeky banter and backchat. Difficult when you know this writer must have a passion for words, their music and their teasing possibilities. And music echoes in so many ways throughout the story, nostalgically and mockingly, snatches of a pop-song, the snarling of a punk lyric: chants and refrains that haunt the hunter and the hunted.In that laddish and Loaded kind of way, sure, there are chills, thrills and pills in Wotcha!, but this is not the vague and lifeless anatomy of soft porn that pulp fiction might offer up, this is a palpable, breathing body of narrative, very much alive and kicking. And it succeeds, beyond entertaining, to `anatomize' personal and violent histories to find `any cause in nature that makes these hard hearts' (to plagiarise a bit from the Old Bard, himself.) Kev Saunders, like any good dramatist, novelist or screenwriter - knows how to woo the intelligent reader/viewer, by making the ordinary both extraordinary and poignant and by showing us (without telling us) how you can't escape your past; hubris with all its excessive entourage is bound to fall; Nemesis will track down the tyrant; the innocent will suffer; but love, whatever the tragic outcomes, can (perhaps) in the bittersweet end, conquer all.And finally, I have to add that it's true, I really couldn't put this book down.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Wotcha! By Gillian Porter This review is from: Wotcha (Paperback)The good,the bad, the mad and the ugly all jockey for position in this masterfully woven thriller, which finds our hapless hero in a race for life,in more ways than one!Follow the seam of black comedy all the way from the nostalgic trip through the 70's punk era before 'pc' was invented (hurrah!))to the stupendous climax, encountering hooker, pervert,vicar,and psycho along the way.Grab this fabulously deviant, funny and curiously touching novel with both hands and meet the unforgettable cast.Where are they all now Mr Saunders, and when is the film coming out?Gillian Porter

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