'There is only heroin, there is only Candy, the three of us adrift on the endless sea of love. ' Candy is a love story. It is also a harrowing investigation of the raw heart of addiction; its claustrophobia and momentum. From the heady narcissism of the narrator's first days with his new lover, Candy, and the relative innocence of their shared habit, Candy charts their decline when smack becomes the total and only focus of their lives.

'Beautifully written and tear provokingly poignant Davies' background as a poet - and the promise of hope - sustains the reader through a quagmire of collapsed veins and momentary bliss, vomit, bile, sweat, endless expletives, dizziness, nausea, scams and the overall sheer bloody exhausting despair of heroin addition' Daily Telegraph, Australia

'Luke Davies expertly maps the constricted corridor of love and addition in Candy. The spiritual struggle of his self-deluded narrator develops as a frightening portrait of contemporary life. It's a stunning novel, compassionate and knowingly observed' Barry Lopez

'A tale of obsession, Candy offers a chilling glimpse into the nightmare world of heroin addition' Elle, Australia