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Ecstasy

Three Tales of Chemical Romance

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Ecstasy

By: Irvine Welsh
Narrated by: Tam Dean Burn Burn
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Rebecca Navarro, best-selling authoress of Regency romances, suffers a paralysing stroke. Assisted by her nurse, Rebecca plans her revenge on her unfaithful husband. But will Freddy Royle, hospital trustee, celebrity and necrophiliac, thwart those plans?

Dave Thornton, soccer thug, has lost his heart to flawed beauty Samantha Worthington. Together they go in search of the man who marketed the drug that crippled her - in order to cripple him.

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 in the grim backstreets of Edinburgh, or will it ignite and blaze like a thousand suns?

© Irvine Welsh 1996 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

 Anthologies & Short Stories Contemporary Contemporary Romance Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Romance Short Stories Urban Heartfelt Funny Marriage

Critic reviews

A pure writer, producing staggering feats of storytelling... The skill of a master
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
Urgent, violent, bleakly funny prose (Nick Hornby)
Welsh's world is spiky, trashy and brutal. It is also brilliant, hilarious and infused with a kind of punkish morality
The poet laureate of the chemical generation
All stars
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Can't beat Welsh and Burn combo.

Hope they redo the others and not the abridged versions.

Amazing

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Another excellent collection of short stories from the author. He does not disappoint with his usual disturbing look at society (from a point of view lol)
Tam Dean Burn provides an excellent performance (again !!) and brings the author’s books to life.
Not for those of a weak disposition….but GGTTH

Weird, wacky and wonderful !!

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Crazy tales, fantastic performance.
If you’ve ever been on the club scene, Lloyd’s experience will make you lol! Recommend

Story 3!! So good, laugh-out-loud

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Some strange stories but Irvine Welsh is always great. Sick and humorous at the same time. Never fails to make me laugh.

Great!

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Barry af - aye proper barry - but there's a fifteen word minimum so I have to add this bit

Classic Welsch

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