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This novel caters not only for our taste buds, but also for our cultural, sexual and imaginative appetites. It provides a portrait of a community where meals are served with lashings of passion and recipes come spiced with unexpected challenges.

This used to be America, this river crossing in the ten-month stretch of land, this sea-to-sea. It used to be the safest place on earth. America as we know it has fragmented. Its machines have stopped, its communities have splintered, its history is virtually forgotten, and the great migration has started: eastwards, through the mountains and down the perilous Dreaming Highway, to ships rumoured to sail to a land of greater promise. Into this landscape stumbles Franklin, who has left his home only to find new ties in a pesthouse perched above a valley. Margaret, suffering the early stages of plague, has been carried up from Ferrytown to recuperate or die alone. When her village is destroyed, she and Franklin set out together, compelled to leave everything they know behind them.

In the theatres and the restaurants of the celebrated City of Kisses, timid actor Felix Dern is famous and admired... for his looks... for his voice... and for his unblemished private life. But 'Lix' feels besieged. His perfect life has been blighted since his teens... for every woman that he sleeps with bears his child. So, now it is Mouetta's turn. Their baby's due in May. Another child? To be so fertile is a curse... Raunchy, revelatory and beautifully refined, Six charts the sexual history of a loving, baffled man, the sexual emancipation of a city, and the sexual ambiguities of humankind.