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FREE ENERGY Book 1
4 parts · 12 h 27 min
Paris, in the first week of the fashion season. Sol Brandt has modeled for ten years, has saved two hundred and eleven thousand dollars, and has worked out what it would take to stop.
FREE ENERGY Book 2
4 parts · 13 h 31 min
Paris, January, and the money has landed. Sol Brandt is twenty-seven, has a lingerie contract worth more than her first ten years put together, and has been paid the first quarter of it. It is less than she budgeted, it arrives late, and the thing she notices is that she does not feel anything.
FREE ENERGY Book 3
4 parts · 11 h 17 min
The Mediterranean, July. Sol Brandt is twenty-seven and is spending the best nine weeks of the summer on the same boats she was invited onto last year, except that this time she is on a call sheet. Her contract requires it, her contract has already paid for it, and she will earn nothing from any of it.
FREE ENERGY Book 4
4 parts · 11 h 22 min
Paris, January, and the queue has nine hundred items in it. Two years ago Sol Brandt spent three weeks negotiating the right to approve every use of her own likeness, won it, and was pleased with herself.
FREE ENERGY Book 5
4 parts · 12 h 26 min
Seoul, September, and there is a photograph of Sol Brandt four stories high on a building she has never stood near. She is twenty-eight, in the last six months of the contract that bought it, and neither she nor anybody else can work out which of nine hundred approvals in April produced it.
FREE ENERGY Book 6
4 parts · 11 h 39 min
Paris, the ninth of January, and Sol Brandt signs a one-year contract for less than half of what she made last year, non-exclusive, with a file doing two of the four campaigns. She is twenty-nine. Nobody has been unfair to her at any point.
FREE ENERGY Book 7
4 parts · 11 h 12 min
Paris, September, and a firm Sol Brandt has never heard of writes to ask for copies of four invoices from three years ago. She is one of about four hundred counterparties and is not in any trouble; it takes her assistant four hours.
FREE ENERGY Book 8
4 parts · 9 h 26 min
Paris, January, and Sol Brandt is thirty with nothing in the calendar. In February she spends two weeks in a classroom and a swimming pool with nineteen- year-olds and comes out with the first piece of paper in her life that says what she can do rather than what she is worth.
FREE ENERGY Book 9
4 parts · 9 h 16 min
Paris, July, and Sol Brandt does not take a job. She does not decide not to; she simply does not answer, and then does not answer the next one, and in the second week of August she works out that she has stopped.
FREE ENERGY Book 10
4 parts · 9 h 58 min
Paris, January, and Sol Brandt is thirty-one and has not worked in fifteen months. She resits the piece of academic work she failed in December and passes it with a question so small she is embarrassed to submit it. In March her assistant does not come back from the six months of leave she was given.
FREE ENERGY Book 11
4 parts · 9 h 52 min
Paris, September, and a licensing schedule signed when Sol Brandt was twenty-six comes up for its five-year review. She reads every contract she has ever signed before she goes, which takes four days and is the first time in her life she has done it.
FREE ENERGY Book 12
4 parts · 9 h 39 min
Paris, January. Sol Brandt is thirty-two and sells the business she started in a garden in Los Angeles for eleven dollars, and the decision takes four minutes and is not the most interesting thing that happens that week. She stays on for a two-year earn-out.