"Exploring personal growth through a life-changing sexual odyssey, this teems with the nourishing strength of female friendship bonds, and a whole lot of laughs."
Brightly humorous in style and wholesomely bold in the personal and sexual journeys undertaken by its two leading ladies, Eleanor Pilcher’s That's What She Said is female-centred fiction in its most feel-good form.
While self-assured Serena is exuberantly comfortable with sex (“I’ve seen a fair share of penises and vaginas in my life”), her self-doubting demisexual best friend Beth lacks confidence in love and work. In fact, she’s still a virgin, acknowledging, “It’s the fear of any virgin, even for one like me who’s still so blasé about my sexuality, to be called out for being inexperienced”.
As a result, Beth bravely decides to do something about her situation by embarking on a sexual odyssey that sees her face her biggest hang ups head on, through throwing herself into all manner of new sexual interactions, from speed-dating scenarios, to tantric experiences. Cue a whole lot of unexpected encounters and outcomes, with Serena at her side for support. At the same time, the novel explores a notable degree of co-dependency between the women — the flip-side of being so close — and both characters’ journeys to selfhood sit at the core of the story.
Breezily entertaining, largely thanks to the bold, honest, in-your-face communication between the perfectly-matched, chalk-and-cheese best friends, That's What She Said is also underpinned by a spirit of sisterhood and exploratory personal growth as it explores demisexuality and the messy rollercoaster of shifting to full-on adulthood.
Eleanor Pilcher is electric in her witty, funny, and heartfelt women's fiction debut, following polar opposite best friends Beth and Serena. When demisexual Beth decides she's done with being a virgin and enlists Serena's help, her new personal journey just might be the thing to end their friendship for good.
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Eleanor Pilcher is electric in her witty, funny, and heartfelt women's fiction debut, following polar opposite best friends Beth and Serena. When demisexual Beth decides she's done with being a virgin and enlists Serena's help, her new personal journey just might be the thing to end their friendship for good.
That's What She Said features in the following genres: General Fiction, Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Fiction, General Fiction, Fiction: narrative themes, Narrative theme: Coming of age
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That's What She Said was written by Eleanor Pilcher and published by Avon an imprint of HarperCollins
That's What She Said has 368 pages
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