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ROSEMARY KINGSLAND
Hussy

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Sphere, London, 1980
(price: £1.00; 192 pages)

The blurb on the back:

Hussy – The beautiful, sensual hostess who lived for the thrills of today and tried to forget tomorrow.
Hussy – Adrift in a twilight world where prostitution, drugs and death were a game for anyone prepared to pay the ultimate price.
Hussy – She fell in love with a man who would stop at nothing to take her over the edge of ecstasy.

opening lines:
Beaty couldn’t see the man in the shadows: only a furtive rustle and a soft, sighing breathing revealed his presence.

I don’t know if Helen Mirren makes a big thing on her CV of this 1980 movie, but somehow one doubts it. I haven’t seen the film myself, but there’s nothing here that suggests it’s anything other than a dull tease.

Our heroine is a hostess in an upmarket club and, well, that’s about as far as I got, to be honest. I wasn’t inspired and, from what I could tell, nor was Ms Kingsland. The book’s adapted from the script by first-time writer/director Matthew Chapman.

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scenes from the movie

ARTISTIC MERIT: 1/5
ENTERTAINMENT VALUE: 1/5
HIPNESS QUOTIENT: 2/5

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