Thank you to Rachel Random Resources and Hot Key Books for this copy which I reviewed honestly and voluntarily. A few of the themes explored: friendship, pressures of sex and fitting in, family relationships and how these are sometimes strained, religion, love (obviously! And acknowledged that you can be wrong regardless of how old you are and it’s never too late to make amends. We mainly use Royal Mail Tracked 48 Service for goods which weight less then 2kg, all other goods will be delivered by a Courier. There's so many layers to Monique, you find out right away why she is so devastated by Dom breaking up with her.

She's torn between her parents who want the pure virginal daughter, and her boyfriend, Dom, who wants to explore the more intimate side of their relationship. Join our community to get personalised book suggestions, extracts straight to your inbox, 10% off RRPs, and to change children’s lives. And maybe their intent was never to make her feel less valuable or worthy if she didn't wait, but that's still how it felt. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.I'm going to get personal here, but this is something people don't talk about and I think it's really important. Monique’s depth and dimension as a character was superb and her conflicting emotions (fear, guilt, shame, anxiety) surrounding her body and sex will definitely resonate with readers currently facing similar experiences or situations, and hopefully encourage them to seek help or a safe space to talk about it. If you fail to comply with this obligation, we may have a right of action against you for compensation.

I found it utterly riveting and thoroughly entertaining and though Joya Goffney’s own experiences with vaginismus allow her to expertly and sensitively delve into such sensitive subject matter with gusto, she still manages to keep the plot lighthearted whilst bringing awareness to a condition that isn’t widely known about.

My spouse had similarly limited knowledge and we didn't have friends we could really ask, so we kind of had to figure it out on our own.