Vicious Spring

Hollis Hampton-Jones lives in Nashville, Tennessee.  This is her first book.

'It's the last day of school, so I took a hit of acid. It's not like I'm seeing things that aren't there. I'm seeing more than I usually see of what is there. . .' 
 
Christy's just out of school in the American South. The big, bad world beckons, but she's turning her back on all that grown-up stuff. She's going to enjoy herself - a bit of sex, a skinful of dope - whatever it takes to keep it all together. But sometimes, no matter what it is you do or don't do, it's all going to fly apart anyway . . .

Hollis Hampton-Jones

Gripping, brave and moving. A beautifully written, shocking and memorable  meditation on the so-called life of a twenty-first century girl

A hectic, tragic tale for those looking for something different

By turns beautiful and uncomfortable, Comes the Night is a story of alienation, detachment and deterioration . . . gorgeous languages and imagery . . . stark, cinematic style . . . Comes the Night is a haunting and vivid book . . .bold, brave and beautifully written

Beautifully written. As concise and carefully crafted as poetry, without a single superfluous word, sentence or sentiment

Meade is nineteen and living in Paris with her twin brother, Ben Ho, far from their privileged upbringing in Nashville, Tennessee. Hers is a restless quest of balancing addictions: to her brother, her pills and her purging. But when Ben Ho falls for a girl at art school, Meade's precarious equilibrium is shaken. 
 
Meade descends into a vortex of glamour and passion with the fashion photographer who becomes her lover. As her sexual obsession shifts from her brother to her troubled Iranian lover, Meade cannot know she has made a tragic match with someone whose secrets go further, deeper and darker than anything she can fathom. 
 
A stark, unflinching novel with a dark heart, Comes the Night chronicles a fevered and tormented journey through the frothy, glossy world of fashion and the shadowy recesses of love.

Hollis Hampton-Jones

Praise for Comes the Night

Gripping, brave and moving. A beautifully written, shocking and memorable meditation on the so-called life of a twenty-first century girl

A hectic, tragic tale for those looking for something different

By turns beautiful and uncomfortable, Comes the Night is a story of alienation, detachment and deterioration . . . gorgeous languages and imagery . . . stark, cinematic style . . . Comes the Night is a ...

Gripping, brave and moving. A beautifully written, shocking and memorable meditation on the so-called life of a twenty-first century girl

A hectic, tragic tale for those looking for something different

By turns beautiful and uncomfortable, Comes the Night is a story of alienation, detachment and deterioration . . . gorgeous languages and imagery . . . stark, cinematic style . . . Comes the Night is a ...

Gripping, brave and moving. A beautifully written, shocking and memorable meditation on the so-called life of a twenty-first century girl

A hectic, tragic tale for those looking for something different

By turns beautiful and uncomfortable, Comes the Night is a story of alienation, detachment and deterioration . . . gorgeous languages and imagery . . . stark, cinematic style . . . Comes the Night is a ...

Books by Hollis Hampton-Jones

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