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Compared to the likes of Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, Lauren Beuke's Zoo City and Andrew Miller's Dub Steps, Selling LipService is a daring novel. Selling LipService introduces its reader to a strange assortment of new vocabulary, and through this touches on the familiar danger of the commercialisation of language. Through a linguistically brilliant text, Tammy Baikie has created a world that exposes a society that has been swallowed up by the ad men.“This book is guaranteed to appeal to anyone who loves reading” – Dr Pamela NicholsSince coming of haemorrh-age, Frith must wear a LipService patch to write or speak. The words the patch produces are not her own. Scripted by copywriters, they promote one sponsoring brand or another. With them, ‘You' – a voice in her head that is the patch's brand persona and her conformist alter ego – appears.“I have been repackaged. My cellophane surface is so slick that...Pages of Selling LipService :