- Imprint: Penguin
- ISBN: 9780241632789
- Length: 288 pages
- Price: £8.99
Claire Daverley, author of Talking at NightThoughtful, fresh and intelligent (and so wryly funny), Roxy Dunn writes so smoothly about the limitations - and liberations - of adult love with such delicacy and honesty. This is a timely novel about things that are, conversely, timeless - self-worth, desire and the deep questions of the heart
Claire Powell, author of At The TableNarrated by a refreshingly offbeat heroine, Wants and Needs is a thoroughly amusing coming-of-age (in your thirties) novel written with wit, honesty and tenderness
Catherine Airey, author of ConfessionsDesperately sad and desperately entertaining ... I just knew I was going to inhale it when I read that first page. So enjoyable and well observed and the writing is just so good and moreish. I loved it
Chloë Ashby, author of Wet PaintRoxy Dunn is oh so good on love. The big feelings. The thinking (and overthinking). The thrills and the spills. Wants and Needs is witty, warm and seriously sexy. A story about what we desire and deserve
Morgan Dick, author of Favourite DaughterA funny, deeply perceptive novel about desire, commitment, and the drastic (sometimes questionable) measures we'll take to avoid ourselves. Dunn writes with an honesty and intimacy that would be scary if the book wasn't also so much fun
Amy Twigg, author of Spoilt CreaturesA tender novel about the pursuit of love ... Dunn writes with a perceptive frankness
Francesca Reece, author of VoyeurAddictive, hilarious and moving. I was totally charmed by this sensitively-rendered and emotionally astute portrait of modern love. Roxy Dunn’s voice is so fresh, funny and human. I missed Misty the moment I closed the book
About Roxy Dunn
Roxy's debut novel, As Young as This (published by Fig Tree, Penguin) was sold at auction and was a Best Book of 2024 in The Independent, Harper’s Bazaar, Stylist, Cosmopolitan, and Sunday Times Style. She is also a screenwriter and alumna of the BBC Comedy Room. Her scripts have been optioned by several production companies and her pilot Useless Millennials was commissioned and broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Wants and Needs is her second novel.
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