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My book, Falling Under, is being released this week. It's my debut and I have, therefore, been anticipating this for months.

I'm ready for all manner of serious discussion about the book; it's structure, its themes, its use of the very unusual 2nd person point of view and so on. I'm ready to talk about whether it's "literary" or "commercial" (it's both, I think) and I'm ready with my answer to the "is this autobiographical" question.

But as friends and family and strangers (!) start to read Falling Under, there's one thing they all want to talk about...they want to talk about The Sex.

Because, you see, there is a bit of sex in Falling Under-sex of the fiery, emotionally fraught variety.

So everyone (with raised eyebrows and meaningful looks) comments on The Sex, and then they ask the "is this autobiographical" question in regards to The Sex.