A wise, intimate tale that is by turns joyful, sorrowful and explicit

Lottie … encapsulates the dichotomy of her life. She’s a smartly realised character – bright yet naïve, determined and single-minded … Heyman handles her subject lightly, lacing it with humour

The author delves deep into Lottie’s psyche, shying away from nothing, to create a rounded and gripping portrait of a woman on the edge of change

A heroine for our times

Praise for Scary Old Sex: Lusty, tough and life-affirming

Hits the reader in the psyche, the gut and the groin with the force of a precision-aimed slingshot … Shocking, mesmerising and truthful

Both funny and eye-wateringly explicit

Rueful and funny and observant … Heyman is an enlightened observer across many aspects of life … These men and women are busily and blissfully humanizing themselves, the kind of bliss that lifts right off the page

A terrific story collection … Heyman is frank in her descriptions, but never cruel or unfeeling … a tender, perceptive work

So stylish, earthy and funny

[An] impressive collection … Heyman takes on the brutal intimacy of death and aging and provides new ways of seeing and experiencing these stages of life

Heyman’s frank tales … feel paradoxically taboo on the page, all the more so for their fierce candour

Sensual and sometimes shocking … Heyman writes with such intimacy and precision that she frequently makes you feel like a trespasser

Bold, hilarious and intelligent … Heyman is upfront and her characters are richly internal

Delivers a shock of taboo desire that is lusciously sensual

Though her characters’ flaws, fears and phobias feel all too real, Heyman’s treatment of them is honest, human and kind