Fun, feminist and filthy: Anoushka Warden, the debut novelist rewriting female sexual desire
First, there’s the title. Anoushka Warden’s debut novel is called I’m F*cking Amazing. Fun to read on the Tube, maybe, but weird to ask for in a bookshop? Then there’s the sex scenes. Let’s just say don’t lend the book to your gran. “In my head, I’ve written the dirtiest, sexiest novel ever,” the writer tells me, with a slight wince. “I know it’s not, but that’s how I feel.”
Has Warden written the dirtiest, sexiest novel ever? Well... it is quite rude. Certainly by the standards of what . The book follows a young woman in her twenties and thirties as she falls in love with Serious Boyfriend Number Three. Everything’s going great, until her body stops cooperating – as she puts it, she develops a “faulty fanny” that no longer “gets wet”. What follows is the story of her quest to fix it, as she navigates infatuation, marriage, emotional abuse, divorce,
