Charlotte Roche's work often delves into themes of cleanliness, sexuality, and femininity. Her style is provocative and sometimes autobiographical, drawing readers into her daring and intimate narratives. This approach has garnered her both devoted admirers, who see her work as an erotic literary classic, and critics, who perceive it as cleverly marketed pornography.
Elizabeth Kiehl's perfect mother and wife act hides a painful past and a tragic rift in her psyche - the result of a terrible car accident in which her brothers and mother were involved. Extraordinarily candid, Charlotte Roche returns with a provocative, semi-autobiographical novel that explores what is expected of a 21st-century wife and mother.
Helen Memel, an outspoken eighteen-year-old with a childlike stubbornness and a precocious sexual confidence, starts scheming on reuniting her divorced parents.
In a sexually and anatomically explicit novel, Roche exposes the double bind of female sexuality, delivering a compulsively readable and fearlessly intimate manifesto on sex, hygiene, and the repercussions of family trauma.