Insatiable: ‘A frank, funny account of 21st-century lust' Independent

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Seduced by their townhouse, their expensive candles and their Friday-night sex parties, Violet cannot tear herself away from Lottie, Simon or their friends. She also has a lot of sex scenes in her books, but if you think Jilly Cooper is erotica, you just haven’t read any erotica. Then I would have children, and Mark would be their father, and I'd repeat the process, holding my breath and waiting for everything to go wrong, crossing my fingers that exams were passed, curfews were observed, experiments with drugs and alcohol were kept to a minimum and that teen years were pregnancy-free. I started this book in the middle of reading another one because I was on holiday and it seemed like a good beach read, and was surprised by how suddenly it went from "funny broke girl having orgies in fancy house" to deep psychological reflection, social commentary on power, age, class anxiety, and themes ranging from loss to emotional abuse. Perhaps Lottie and Simon just don't understand that they're dangling a life-changing opportunity in front of me, because they can't imagine how it feels to live a life that needs to be changed so badly.

I was doing my job as a young woman, which meant that no one could accuse them of not doing theirs properly.It is liberating to let myself become two dimensional for a moment, albeit with tits that are indisputably 3D.

I’d be happy to debate how qualitatively it differs from, say, your average Pornhub offering, or even ‘mainstream’ published erotica, but quantitatively? The satisfaction to be gained from reading a quality piece of erotica, one that turns your particular dials and does so in a way that is also compelling from a literary point of view, is not so different from reading a quality piece of science-fiction or history.There’s increasing acknowledgement that intimate scenes need the same amount of forethought and planning.