A delicious twist on the modern metrofem scenario of if-I-pay-for-it-there-are-no-strings. (But as we all know, there has never been such a thing as a ‘free lunch’ anyway!) Chick-Lit on Viagra.

Sophie Taylor’s lazy-girl lifestyle is about to unravel. She’s been with partner Rex for seven years, and now he wants more commitment. She never planned for a long-term relationship with him. Since a drunken agreement where he offered to fulfil her sexual fantasies for seven years in return for a cash loan, they’ve drifted into a cosy partnership. Yet still Sophie has a fascination with paying men for sex. As a birthday treat Rex poses as a male escort in one of Brighton’s posh seafront hotels. It’s fun, but it’s not enough. Sophie needs the thrill of the real thing; the forbidden element that turns her on and is missing from her life with Rex. And so begins her descent into Brighton’s sleazier nightlife, where she meets Wolfie, the genuine gigolo article, and embarks on a series of liaisons that spread out to suburbia and beyond.