Carol Hunt: 'Cougar Diaries' lays bare funny, messy reality of sex
When Aoife Brennan's life fell apart, she decided to put it through the 'comic erotica' fiction mill
Carol Hunt
'IT'S definitely fiction," says Aoife Brennan to me over a glass of dry Chardonnay. "It's not my life. But it is me saying: 'If I were in a bonkbuster, what would I do?'
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