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

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There is far too much going on, and unfortunately the carefully crafted plot up this point begins to fall apart. I hate that at least once a day something will make me forget what happened, and then I have to remember it all over again. Especially when the stupid thing is happening in a place that sells alcohol and is situated within five miles of my flat.

The bestselling LGBTQ+ graphic novel about life, love, and everything that happens in between: this is the fifth volume of the Heartstopper series.To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Only it soon becomes clear that Lottie and her husband Simon are not only inviting Violet into their company, they are also inviting her into their lives. The young woman at the centre of the story violet is achingly insecure and lost in all elements of her life and you really feel for her as she gets entangled with a group of older people who enjoy group sex . The problem with discussing porn and erotica – which, for the sake of clarity, I mean the film format and the written format of sex stories – is that there really is a binary. One minute I was applauding Violet and her choices, the next I was screaming at her, frustrated at the decisions she was making.

She has a difficult relationship with her parents, who sound emotionally abusive, so she 'falls in love' with an older married couple and joins them in their grim-sounding sex parties. It's quite a heavy read involving rape, sexual assault, manipulative relationships, grief and bulimia. Buchanan also knows when to change gears – just when you think you couldn’t handle another group sex scene; she starts to delve into Violet’s past mistakes and her attempts to fix the past. There's a more hopeful and excitable tone throughout the book while not lacking the same sharp, self-critical observations.

One of the walls is lined with reassuringly battered books, orange Penguin classics and heavy, glossy Phaidons. So much of what is written spoke to me on a very deep level - the ideas about the shame that women feel around food, money and sex, the self-deprecation and feeling of being lost that characterised my early 20s.