Publisher's Synopsis
Donna-Mae lives in a small town, works a dead-end job, and looks for love (or its closest sibling) on the internet, again and again. Now shacked up with the long-suffering Bernie, she devotes her days to tracking down the real-life identities of a gang of "cyberslags" who post on a relationship forum frequented by the jaded, the bitter, the disappointed - and those who got lucky with the husbands and boyfriends of those jaded, bitter and disappointed people. Donna-Mae's investigations grant her entree to a back-channel blog, where she meets exotic others - the politician's wife, the aspiring movie star, the promising student, the soldier's wife, the journalist... and that cursed Lovingheart, whose gang of "cyberslags" make all of their lives miserable! In another state, in another time zone, lurking on the internet, a colourful cast of characters awaits, frequenting a forum far from home. Their lives play out on and off screen, intersecting and diverging, acerbically observed and rendered in full technicolour. The love child of Jerry Springer and Jeremy Kyle, raised on drama in a digital backroom, this novella will entertain, horrify, tease and terrify, as you recognise the characters that lurk behind your screens, on your status feed, behind the net curtains on your street, or in your own home.
