[2] In August 2018, Fishnet was re-published by Black & White Publishing, following the liquidation of Freight Books in December 2017.
In an interview with The List, she stated that in 2009, she thought being a sex worker meant that person was "a victim, a poor soul, probably a drug addict, a sad indictment of our patriarchal society".
Six years later, Fiona lives a mundane existence, struggling through a tedious office job and child care.
[7] Fishnet has been praised for its use of dialogue and Scottish vernacular,[8] and criticised for its use of present tense and "lectures on prostitution in the guise of blog entries".
[10] James Kidd, writing for The Independent, called Fishnet "unsettling and seductive" and compared it to Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh's 1993 novel about Scottish heroin users, as it portrays a "clandestine world [...] against the every day".