"Extraordinary Maude proves it's never too late to find a toyboy! A genuinely touching tale saved from over-sentimentality by a healthy streak of black humour."
"Eddie, an aspiring writer, is so marked by a teenage liaison with the older Marion that he spends his adult life pursuing a stream of increasingly elderly women."
"From the moment Isabelle Huppert's seemingly repressed piano teacher walks into a porn shop, we realise nothing will be predictable in this disturbing depiction of obsession and power play."
"'The First Illumination of Lily Levalle' is brought about by a handsome Hungarian student who wanders into her library in Liz Berry's erotically charged contribution to this short story collection."
"This wolf-whispering follow-up to Evans' most famous book pits biologist Helen, teenage Luke and a pack of wolves against a powerful lycanphobic rancher, who also happens to be Luke's father."