Back Careering Save as PDF
Chapters (64)
  1. Cover
  2. About the Author
  3. Dedication
  4. Chapter One
  5. Chapter Two
  6. Chapter Three
  7. Chapter Four
  8. Chapter Five
  9. Chapter Six
  10. Chapter Seven
  11. Chapter Eight
  12. Chapter Nine
  13. Chapter Ten
  14. Chapter Eleven
  15. Chapter Twelve
  16. Chapter Thirteen
  17. Chapter Fourteen
  18. Chapter Fifteen
  19. Chapter Sixteen
  20. Chapter Seventeen
  21. Chapter Eighteen
  22. Chapter Nineteen
  23. Chapter Twenty
  24. Chapter Twenty-One
  25. Chapter Twenty-Two
  26. Chapter Twenty-Three
  27. Chapter Twenty-Four
  28. Chapter Twenty-Five
  29. Chapter Twenty-Six
  30. Chapter Twenty-Seven
  31. Chapter Twenty-Eight
  32. Chapter Twenty-Nine
  33. Chapter Thirty
  34. Chapter Thirty-One
  35. Chapter Thirty-Two
  36. Chapter Thirty-Three
  37. Chapter Thirty-Four
  38. Chapter Thirty-Five
  39. Chapter Thirty-Six
  40. Chapter Thirty-Seven
  41. Chapter Thirty-Eight
  42. Chapter Thirty-Nine
  43. Chapter Forty
  44. Chapter Forty-One
  45. Chapter Forty-Two
  46. Chapter Forty-Three
  47. Chapter Forty-Four
  48. Chapter Forty-Five
  49. Chapter Forty-Six
  50. Chapter Forty-Seven
  51. Chapter Forty-Eight
  52. Chapter Forty-Nine
  53. Chapter Fifty
  54. Chapter Fifty-One
  55. Chapter Fifty-Two
  56. Chapter Fifty-Three
  57. Chapter Fifty-Four
  58. Chapter Fifty-Five
  59. Chapter Fifty-Six
  60. Chapter Fifty-Seven
  61. Chapter Fifty-Eight
  62. Chapter Fifty-Nine
  63. Epilogue
  64. Acknowledgements

We’re lit up with curiosity—Kim is as open mouthed and glowing as a Halloween pumpkin—but Harri has returned, and we fall silent. If we could keep gossiping for an hour, I’m sure we’d have some sexy ideas, but the pressure makes my face ache. I think about Kim at the gym, overwhelmed with lust. I think about Sam Strong, his teeth grazing a nipple, his ‘you like that, don’t you?’ and how I hate myself a little bit for liking it, and for liking what he tells me to like. Then, I think about my threesome, and the fact that I have a sexy idea on my phone, written out and ready to go. Dare I share it?

Harri is in a state of high agitation. ‘Imogen, come on!’ I know you’ve been holding out on me.’ I can see her chest, rising and falling rapidly under her cashmere polo neck. Louise looks scared, Akila looks encouraging, Kim looks hopeful and Tabitha looks out of the tiny window. ‘We’re thinking of your blog. Think sex. Desire! The Girl! What’s she doing about sex?’

Over the last three weeks, Harri has not gone for most of my non sexy ideas. She hated Israeli teen soldiers (‘So fucking done’), she hated Niksen, the ‘hot new Dutch lifestyle concept’ that was popping up in various online trend round ups (‘Doing nothing? Nothing doing!’) and she hated Growing Up in Grenfell (‘Imogen, I know it’s all very good and worthy but if I wanted to be depressed I’d throw my Sertraline out of the fucking window’). I’m proud of my blog—but I’m still not sure how I feel about writing about sex at work in such a personal way. I think I’d hoped to ‘prove’ myself with something serious. Something new. But then, I know the blog brought me here. It caught Harri’s eye. Maybe it’s time.

Still, the thing about the blog is that even though absolutely anyone can read it, it feels private. Intimate. Ninety per cent of it is me reviewing vibrators—and if I’m entirely honest, I’m so grateful to the publicists who send them that everything gets two thumbs up, as it were. As far as I can tell, most of my readers are sex bloggers themselves. It’s a tiny, cosy, deviant community where I feel entirely safe to write and share what I want to share. I thought I was progressive and positive but the thought of writing about, say, touching myself, for The Know—well, this is starting to feel like those bad dreams when I look down and notice I’m naked. And I have to resit my A levels.