Experienced: A Novel

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Penguin, Jun 4, 2024 - Fiction - 384 pages
“A fizzing, lip-chewing, collar-bone biting, palm-sweating roller-coaster of a rom-com that is both the sexiest book you'll read all year and the most heartening.” —Caroline O'Donoghue, New York Times bestselling author of The Rachel Incident

“A joyful, exhilarating romp of a romance!” —Ashley Herring Blake, bestselling author of Iris Kelly Doesn’t Date

Bette is in love for the first time in her life. Finally, everything makes sense. Until it doesn’t.


As Bette approached thirty, she realized something big: she’s into women. And then she fell for Mei, who’s entirely perfect. Until, out of the blue, Mei suggests they take a break. She wants Bette to have the opportunity she missed out on in her twenties: to explore the queer dating scene, and then return certain about their future, her desires, and herself.

Reluctantly, Bette sets out on a mission: date hot women and have hot casual sex, before returning to her loving girlfriend. Maybe, put that way, it doesn’t sound so bad…

Often heady and thrilling, occasionally cringe, Bette’s odyssey will take her to some unexpected places. But with her new friend, the gorgeous and self-assured Ruth, as her queer dating guide, Bette can’t possibly fail. Right?
 

Contents

Section 1
1
Section 2
10
Section 3
17
Section 4
27
Section 5
35
Section 6
48
Section 7
65
Section 8
80
Section 16
198
Section 17
214
Section 18
218
Section 19
229
Section 20
245
Section 21
251
Section 22
266
Section 23
279

Section 9
94
Section 10
107
Section 11
119
Section 12
131
Section 13
148
Section 14
169
Section 15
187
Section 24
294
Section 25
312
Section 26
332
Section 27
346
Section 28
364
Section 29
371
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About the author (2024)

Kate Young is a writer and cook, whose award-winning Little Library Cookbooks feature food inspired by beloved works of literature. After a sunny Australian childhood (spent indoors reading books) she moved to London, which suited her much better. She now lives in a converted mill in a Gloucestershire town. Experienced is her first novel.

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