When the draft to her first novel gets stolen in a robbery, Lasley impulsively upends her life in London and moves to Aberdeen to talk to men in Scotland, who work on oil rigs. Her long year of pub interviews with these workers is shot through by the story of her obssessive affair with Caden, the first oil rig worker she interviews.
The strongest part by far are the snippets of insights into life on the oil rig, the specific lingo and rythm of life offshore in an all male environment. In her own words, Lasley wanted to find out what men are like with no women around. This query gives the book, especially in the passages about the affair, a curiously misogynist angle. At times I found myself reminded of Lisa Taddeo's chronicles of love lives of three American women. Books like these are often heralded for showing 'female desire' when in fact it more often depicts are certain type of needy, unhealthy attachment style. Personally, less pining and more reporting would have pleased me.

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Abergel, FrédéricAnane, MarouaneChakraborti, AnirbanJedidi, AymenMuni Toke, Ioane

Frederic Abergel is Professor and Chair of Quantitative Finance, CentraleSupélec, France. He holds a PhD in Mathematics from the Université Paris-Sud. He began his career as a CNRS scientist at the Université Paris-Sud and gained several years of industrial experience in investment banking at BNP Paribas, CAI Cheuvreux, Barclays Capital and Natixis CIB. His areas of research include financial markets, pricing and hedging of derivatives, quantitative finance and empirical properties of financial data.

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