Someone Worth Watching

Sana Malik once expected dance to become her life. It didnt.

Instead, she works in a Leicester clothes shop, fits classes around shifts and has become good at not asking whether the part of her life that mattered most is already behind her.

Then people start watching again.

A paid subscription page begins to grow. An old university acquaintance asks her to help create a new duet. A successful dancer and content creator brings her into rooms she thought she had left behind. Soon Sana is earning money from her work, making something she believes in and discovering how good it feels to be wanted there.

But attention has its own momentum. The more visible Sana becomes, the harder it is to tell where the work ends and the need to remain part of the conversation begins.

Psychologically observant, dryly funny and intimate, Someone Worth Watching is a novel about ambition, desire, work, intimacy and the complicated pleasure of being seen, and about what happens when being watched begins to feel like proof that you matter.