Daisy Buchanan

contained within the book is that Violet, I think like lots of us, has a very tricky relationship with food.

And occasionally that is the place that she goes to when she is scared or unhappy.

Food is something that she abuses.

But I think, and I've personally had a big change, I think, and I've realised that I was so frightened of my greed for life and for, you know, ambition and excitement and creativity that

I use food to kind of, as a way of, I could indulge that appetite and use that appetite to suffocate the others.

And I think that's what Violet is experiencing, really, that I think especially, you know, greedy is a word like bossy or one of those things that's often kind of

women are accused of being it and that it's a bad thing.

And I think as women, especially, we're told not to want things.

We're told that our appetite should be limited.

And so the book is really about Violet really learning to revel in hers.

Oh, well, thank you so much.

That is so, so lovely to hear.

And I did really want that.

Um,

partly because I've always loved, you know, sexy books.

Jackie Collins, Judith Krantz, Shirley Conran.

And having been, you know, I was raised in a fairly strict Catholic family.

Also, I was a teenager in the 90s and the internet was sort of just getting going.

So if I wanted to encounter something

sex and you know read about things beyond my experience I did have to read I did have to sort of go and look for books and books are a bit you know easier to sort of to find and enjoy in secret and I think that when I started writing it felt like we were we got to a point where you know rightly so many conversations about women and sex were about