Nothing Natural

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With an introduction by Lena Dunham.

“That’s right. That’s a good girl”

An independent single mother in her thirties, Rachel has long lived a life of no-nonsense self-control. Then, one night she encounters the cold-eyed Joshua at a dinner party, and it seems as though all her darkest fantasies might be becoming very real.

Jenny Diski’s controversial first novel is a startling psycho-sexual spiral into oblivion, following one complicated woman’s hunt for true pleasure.

‘An honest and startling look at the angry face of sex’ Cosmopolitan

Vintage Desire: classic stories of lust and longing.

About Jenny Diski

Jenny Diski (1947-2016) was born in London, where she lived most of her life. She was the author of ten novels, including Nothing Natural and Apology for the Woman Writing, and four books of travel and memoir, including the prize-winning Stranger on a Train and Skating to Antarctica. She published three volumes of essays, a collection of short stories, and her journalism appeared in many publications including the Observer and the London Review of Books, to which she contributed more than two hundred articles over twenty-five years. Diski’s last memoir, In Gratitude, documented her final years living with a terminal cancer diagnosis as well as her teenage years living in the home of the novelist, Doris Lessing.

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