The Literary Review has taken to naming and shaming terrible sex writing for the magazine's annual Bad Sex in Fiction award.

In 15th-century Oakham, England, Thomas Newman, the village's greatest landowner and de facto leader, speaks to local priest John Reve about God.

The novel is also the basis for an acclaimed miniseries on Hulu.

Raphaely’s immersive and fascinating tale has as its protagonist the deputy editor of a London glamour magazine, Lisa Lassiter.