'A beautiful read / a perfect primer for an explosive lesbian affair / an essential truth' LENA DUNHAMThe cult-classic novella that intimately explores one young writer's whirlwind and whiplash affair as she falls deeply in love with a woman for the first time.
'This is a must-read' Amanda Holden'No Regrets is a dazzling first novel' Jilly Cooper'I raced through it' Daily Mail'A super-sexy romp' The Sun'Scandalously good fun' Hello!
* A married woman has a BDSM-tinged encounter at a work conference* Two young boys on a sleepover feel the first stirrings of desire* In an artificially generated afterlife, anything can be sexual if you want it to be* A young widow on a sleeper train shelters a criminal in her carriage* A bisexual woman cheats on her wife with a baker* Anyone can hire a holographic gigolo in 2098 - but one client gets a lot closer than she'd intended* Female friends, sharing a hotel room, give in to long-repressed feelings* The Rapunzel myth is rewritten.
With her jaunty dissection of the sex life and the private grooming habits of the novel's 18-year-old narrator, Helen Memel, Charlotte Roche has turned the previously unspeakable into the national conversation in Germany.
An Observer Best Debut of the YearA Granta Best Young British Novelist'I loved this book' JULIA ARMFIELD'Exhilarating' MONICA HEISEY'Astonishing' ANDREA LAWLOR'Should be on everyone's summer reading list' iNEWS'Scorching .
