Skin Contact

A razor-sharp exploration of intimacy, non-monogamous desire, and motherhood
A grieving woman opens her marriage after the death of her mother. It goes mostly well - until her husband falls in love with someone else...
NEW YORK TIMES, The Novels Everyone Will Be Reading This Summer

Deeply readable, this will be the hottest, sluttiest book of the summer
ALICE SLATER, AUTHOR OF LET THE BAD TIMES ROLL

Novels about non-monogamy are hardly a novelty nowadays, but Skin Contact is a smart, involving debut written with an empathy and insight that ensures it never feels passé
DAILY MAIL

A fresh take on making marriage work in the modern age . . . one not to miss
MARIE CLAIRE

Acute and witty on female desire
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Unmoored by her mothers sudden death, Frances has never felt so diminished, or so old. Shes painfully aware that strangers no longer look at her the same way - and that shes now, at thirty-two, older than the great aunt for whom she was named, who was killed in the seventies under mysterious circumstances involving an extramarital affair.

Her husband, Ben, will do anything to help Frances regain her vivacity and sense of purpose. So when Frances suggests that they open their marriage, Ben complies.

Over the next two years, they explore their sexualities and latent kinks; they navigate jealousy, betrayal, desire, and obsession; they defend their choices - and their new identities - to confused friends. They do all of this together, as a team. But when Ben finds himself falling in love with another woman, just as Frances realizes shes ready to settle down and have a baby, they are forced to confront the consequences of their experiment.