A wise, intimate tale that is by turns joyful, sorrowful and explicit

Observer

Lottie … encapsulates the dichotomy of her life. She's a smartly realised character – bright yet naïve, determined and single-minded ... Heyman handles her subject lightly, lacing it with humour

A Life in Books

The author delves deep into Lottie's psyche, shying away from nothing, to create a rounded and gripping portrait of a woman on the edge of change

Daily Mail

A heroine for our times

Publishers Weekly

Praise for Scary Old Sex: Lusty, tough and life-affirming

Elaine Showalter, Guardian

Hits the reader in the psyche, the gut and the groin with the force of a precision-aimed slingshot … Shocking, mesmerising and truthful

Rowan Pelling, Sunday Telegraph