The Beautiful and Barbaric Truth of an Absurd World

The Secret Ski Seasonaire is a no-holds-barred narrative memoir of time spent in the Alps in the mid-2000s on a quest to become a sponsored freestyle skier. The author provides an incriminatingly honest account of the absurd, debauched, yet beautifully utopian world of the ski season.

A jarringly honest and rip-roaringly entertaining narrative memoir of time spent in the Alps in the mid-2000s on a quest to become a sponsored freestyle skier.

The author provides an incriminatingly candid account of the absurd, debauched, yet beautifully utopian world of the ski season in this highly relatable coming-of-age story.

Key features:

• The Trainspotting and Kids of winter sports literature, it's a highly entertaining de-glamorisation of the journey most snow sports athletes have to take
• Off the hill, TSSS is way out of his social depth in the company of spoilt rich kids, despotic managers, wild Swedish party girls, French do-gooders and middle-aged drifters
• 'Ski bums' are often treated with contempt and ridiculed; TSSS provides substance to a plethora of these bums
• Captures the day-to-day domesticity of winter seasons alongside the euphoria of blasting around the mountains with reckless abandon
• Gives voice to those underappreciated seasonal workers who work tremendously long and hard hours for almost zero pay – TSSS reveals the exploitation of many thousands of Brits back in the 2000s

Ski seasons are the greatest sociological experiment left unstudied . until now! This powerful memoir lifts the lid on the secrets you could barely have imagined about the elitist world of skiing and the lives of seasonaires.