Ecstasy

Lloyd from Leith has a transfiguring passion for the unhappily married Heather. Together they explore the true nature of house music and chemical romance. Will their ardour fizzle and die or will it ignite and blaze like a thousand suns? Ecstasy follows them and others through the backstreets of Edinburgh, stifling suburban sitting rooms and the bright lights of London. Exhilarating and dazzling, this is Welsh at his very best. "A pure writer, producing staggering feats of storytelling... The skill of a master" Independent "Welsh writes with a skill, wit and compassion that amounts to genius. He is the best thing to have happened to British writing for decades" Sunday Times "Urgent, violent, bleakly funny" -- Nick Hornby "Welsh's world is spiky, trashy and brutal. It is also brilliant, hilarious and infused with a kind of punkish morality" Sunday Express "The poet laureate of the chemical generation" The Face.