For several years, she’s combined a sexless marriage to Richard with a closet life as a sex addict, seducing almost all the men she meets. Steph tests the boundaries when she asks Pip to give her an alibi for the night her husband was involved in a hit and run. They don’t want to be outcasts so they marry, have children, work at respectable careers---YET, this doesn’t mean they are able to quash their secret SELF.

I also liked reading about Adele’s backstory and how it wasn’t the really stereotypical kind of portrayal of a emotionally shallow female sex addict. VERDICT Bertei's childhood is harrowing, and her memoir does not hold back on the details, which are horrific at times.

Like a substance addict she has to score her next shot of fornication to feel alive, to exist: ‘Somewhere in her oblivion is the reassuring feeling that she has existed countless times in the desire of others’.

In “The Perfect Nanny” she examines a woman who most people wouldn’t consider successful; a nanny that doesn’t have a “traditional” life. In the run up to the big day long buried passions are reawakened and hidden secrets revealed; the group realise that a lot has changed in twelve years. But her dream come true turns into a nightmare when she falls pregnant and Hugh makes it clear he’s been there, done that and doesn’t want to do it all again.She invents quotes from high-up anonymous sources: “a figure close to the government,” “a well-placed observer who asked to remain nameless.