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

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Insatiable is an unashamedly filthy and yet deeply sensitive exploration of female desire, aspiration and vulnerability, and Daisy is an exciting new voice in contemporary fiction. Maybe there are thousands of people who have threesomes with their colleges all the time, and I'm the prude for wondering whether it's odd.

The last few pages realllllyyy had me holding my breath as to whether she was gonna make *that* massive mistake. I raced through this funny, filthy and utterly compelling debut about female sexuality, ambition and vulnerability. It's quite a heavy read involving rape, sexual assault, manipulative relationships, grief and bulimia. Almost immediately it becomes more than that, with Violet entering into a threesome with Lottie and her husband Simon. I love the new movement of contemporary fiction; women writing women, female authors creating female characters who actually represent how we really think, feel, and behave, as opposed to how men have depicted us for hundreds of years.The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site's analytics report. Every time someone points out a very reasonable flaw of Violet’s that has directly hurt them, Violet flares up and attacks them back. I make such a mess of things when I'm trying to be good - if I did what I really wanted, cities would probably fall into the sea.

They have money and nice stuff from John Lewis but drink cheap instant coffee (always a give away) like their cheap instant group sex. Usually, the moment passes, the mood fades, we resist temptation like ex-smokers turning down cigarettes, bolstering a resolve that has been softened by a second glass of wine. It's really, really funny, and maybe it's because in the past I've been very close to the protagonist's demographic (mid-twenties, in London, badly paid, a bit lost, desperate to belong) but I found Violet to be equally exasperating and endearing.

Now, I have a lot of respect for Judi Dench, but christ on a bike, would she be your first thought for a comparator in this situation? If, however, you’re also seeking either a well-written story or a well-written piece of erotica … don’t.

So, when Lottie - who looks like the woman Violet wants to be when she grows up - offers Violet the chance to join her exciting start-up, she bites. Stuck in a dead-end job, broken-hearted, broke and estranged from her best friend: Violet's life is nothing like she thought it would be. Buchanan offers astute social observation, while the development of Violet as an ardent yet vulnerable heroine to root for makes her a millennial counterpart to Jilly Cooper's Bella or Octavia.

I love both Buchanan and Tu’s exploration of female desire through their flawed characters and the fact that the line between this desire vs the simmering loneliness, sadness and desperation underneath is blurred. Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's daily session limit. Whilst I consider this to be quite a light hearted read, it covers some important topics and I couldn't help but see myself in some of Violet's thoughts and decisions (I said some! Quickly Violet realises she is being invited into much more than a new job when she attends one of their Friday night sex parties and soon she becomes hooked on Lottie, Simon and their friends.