There was a real record scratch moment in an early chapter where the rich dude uses this sketchy analogy about thoughts about having group sex is in a "war torn" part of his brain he tries to avoid, but later says visiting "his own personal Syria" was surprisingly a big turn on. Like . . . what? Which one of you came up with this - Bowen? Kennedy? Whoever it was, cut it out.

I carried on after a break, but it doesn't seem to be going anywhere and . . . I don't know. It might be that it just hasn't aged that well, and I have other books to read.