Helen Memel eighteen years old and laid up in hospital after an intimate shaving accident, whiles away hours plotting to reunite her long-diverced parents. She also has plenty of time to ponder the fine workings 7 the female body.

Conageous, provocative and very funny,

in her vocabulary...

And there's no such thing as 'tabod welands races headlong into one of the last remaining taboss: hygiene hysteria and the standardised sexuality of the female body. Told with unflinching relish, this is the wonderfully wild ride of a frank and vulnerable heroine who voices what others dare not even think