Amanda Baker

The Companion Contract Amanda Baker

The Companion Contract (first published in 2007) begins with a sordid contract for sex. Jennifer is a young woman who barely survived a disastrous childhood, Rob is a middle-aged man, lost in the modern world, who calculates his existence in 6-minute units. Fate deals many strange cards as the bizarre narrative unfolds. With peanut butter, determined zygotes, a willful daughter, an inventive hairdresser, cruel rejection, fearful denial and spiteful vengeance on one side - does this strange love stand a chance? And is there always a price to pay...