Cover of Fishnet

Fishnet

by Kirstin Innes · 2015

+ Want to read

Twenty year old Rona Leonard walks out of her sister Fiona's flat and disappears.

Six years on, worn down by a tedious job, child care and the aching absence in her life, Fiona's mundane existence is blown apart by the revelation that, before she disappeared, Rona had been working as a prostitute. Driven to discover the truth, Fiona embarks on an obsessive quest to investigate the sex industry. As she is drawn into a complex world, Fiona makes shocking discoveries that challenge everything she believed, and will ultimately change her life forever.

Read more

Bittersweet, sensual and rich, Fishnettakes a clear-eyed, meticulously researched, controversial look at the sex industry and the lives of sex workers, questioning our perception of contemporary femininity.

Genre
literary fictionliterary fictionMore like thisLess of thismysterymysteryMore like thisLess of thiscrimecrimeMore like thisLess of this
Themes
feminismfeminismMore like thisLess of this
Setting
2010s2010sMore like thisLess of thisScotlandScotlandMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 266 pages

Click a tag to see books like this one that share it. Point at it (on a phone, tap it) for less of it instead.

Read it? Sign in to help tag it.

BuyAmazonGoogle Books

BorrowOpen LibraryA library near you

MoreCompare pricesHardcover

Liked Fishnet? Here’s where I’d start.

These suit anyone who liked Fishnet. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.

  1. Stonemouth Iain Banks · 2012 Shares fiction, Scotland, scottish
  2. Morvern Callar Alan Warner · 1995 Shares fiction, Scotland, scottish
  3. The Falling Sky Pippa Goldschmidt · 2013 Shares fiction, contemporary, literary fiction
  4. Mo Said She Was Quirky James Kelman · 2012 Shares fiction, Scotland, scottish
See more recommendations →

“People who read Fishnet tend to reach for these next.”

  1. Any Other Mouth Anneliese Mackintosh · 2014
  2. Virginia Woolf in Manhattan Maggie Gee · 2014
  3. One Morning Like A Bird Andrew Miller · 2008
  4. The Thirty List Eva Woods · 2015

“If you want more of the same (literary fiction about feminism), start with these.”

  1. The Stars in the Bright Sky Alan Warner · 2010
  2. Night Waking Sarah Moss · 2011
  3. Burning Down George Orwell's House Andrew Ervin · 2015
  4. The Last Pearl Fisher of Scotland Julia Stuart · 2016

“If it was the Scotland that hooked you, try one of these.”

  1. The Crow Road Iain Banks · 1992
  2. Electric Brae Andrew Greig · 1992
  3. And the Land Lay Still James Robertson · 2010
  4. These Demented Lands Alan Warner · 1997

“These start from a similar idea, even if they go somewhere else with it.”

  1. Sex for Sale: Prostitution, Pornography, and the Sex Industry · 1999
  2. Working Sex: Sex Workers Write About a Changing Industry · 2007
  3. Patpong Sisters: An American Woman's View of the Bangkok Sex World Cleo Odzer · 1994
  4. Sex Slaves Louise Brown · 2000

Report a problem