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Tabitha Lasley

Biography

Tabitha Lasley

Tabitha Lasley was a journalist for 10 years. She has lived in London, Johannesburg and Aberdeen. SEA STATE is her first book.

Tabitha Lasley

Books by Tabitha Lasley

by Tabitha Lasley - Memoir, Nonfiction

In her mid-30s and newly free from a terrible relationship, Tabitha Lasley quit her job at a London magazine, packed her bags, and poured her savings into a six-month lease on an apartment in Aberdeen, Scotland. She decided to make good on a long-deferred idea for a book about oil rigs and the men who work on them. Why oil rigs? She wanted to see what men were like with no women around. In Aberdeen, Tabitha became deeply entrenched in the world of roughnecks, a teeming subculture rich with brawls, hard labor and competition. The longer she stayed, the more she found that her presence had a destabilizing effect on the men --- and her.