Insatiable is a story about loneliness and trying to fit in, about our desire to be loved and included, how it’s easy to confuse being wanted with being used. It’ll draw people in with the shagging, but people will stay because they’re rooting for Violet.’ Evening Standard Essentially, this book is a love story, it explores how the lovers come to terms with this and their journey in getting there. It explores the pressure on women to conform to stereotypes and female friendships and how powerful they are - in good and bad ways.

This novel shines with dark humour, sharp intelligence, sizzling sex scenes, and a piercing portrayal of loneliness. Not even the most insatiable reader could ask for more.’ Katherine Heiny Love the ending, albeit surprising - wasn't mad though! I do feel it came slightly out of nowhere and would have liked to see more build up/tension/development but apart from that what a wild read - filthy stuff in here. Insatiable is about women and desire - lust, longing and the need to be loved. It is a story about being unable to tell whether you are running towards your future or simply running away from your past. The result is at once tender and sad, funny and hopeful. A piercing insight into the unreal demands modern women place on themselves and told with real humour and energy, we love this book so much' StylistInsatiable is about women and desire - lust, longing and the need to be loved. It is a story about being unable to tell whether you are running towards your future or simply running away from your past. The result is at once tender and sad, funny and hopeful." Insatiable introduces us to Violet, a twentysomething trapped in a poorly-paid, dead-end job as a social media coordinator for some kind of art-related start up. At a social event, she meets Simon and Lottie, a suave, diabolically rich married couple who immediately sweep her off her feet. Violet is immediately swept into their world of designer candles, high-rise apartments and weekly sex parties, seduced by their rich friends, their immense wealth and the constant, dangling promise of a better life, an escape that poor Violet – who lives in her overdraft and feels constantly adrift from her own life – so desperately needs. This novel shines with dark humour, sharp intelligence, sizzling sex scenes, and a piercing portrayal of loneliness. Not even the most insatiable reader could ask for more.' Katherine Heiny I requested this book totally on a whim after seeing it on a Facebook ad. Even judging by the description it sounded a little out of my comfort zone, but I thought I’d give it a shot – and I’m so pleased that I did, because I ended up enjoying it a surprising amount! This book came to my attention as I regularly listen to the author’s podcast and thoroughly enjoy it. When I saw she had written a novel, I was intrigued.

I have been so excited to get my hands on a copy of Insatiable for months, and I'm so pleased to say I was not disappointed, this one is worth the hype.

Few books out in the early half of the year are as flat-out entertaining as Buchanan's fizzy, filthy story of a young woman's sexual awakening.' i paper

Insatiable centres around Violet. A young woman who doubts herself and her worth. Violet longs to be wanted and this takes her down a path which ultimately leads to her ‘knowing herself’. The journey violet takes is exciting, dangerous and very sexy. Daisy brings characters to life like no other writer, pumping them full of humour, vulnerability and sexy sexy sex' Lucy Vine Violet was a wonderful character; even though we may not all have been in her exact position (... no pun intended), I think everyone can relate to her desire for more, and the ways in which she tries to take control of her life when everything feels as though it's spiralling. Her story and her situation was so nuanced, and I loved the way it unfolded as we learnt more about her history whilst we watched her navigating her present with Lottie and Simon. I can't believe this is a fiction debut - she writes stories like she's been doing it for fifty years' Laura Jane WilliamsI have never read anything quite like Insatiable. This is a book about want. A book about desire, a chaotic tale of a chaotic woman named Violet who is completely consumed with the need to be loved and whole, but who stumbles around in all of the wrong places trying to find what she desperately wants. Violet was, in so many ways, relatable and frightening to read about. I recognized parts of myself in her, her unending longing and her confusion and her missteps felt so familiar to me. Her habit of throwing herself off cliffs with the hope that something better would be waiting at the bottom made for an intense reading experience. Insatiable is raw in every way, and Daisy Buchanan spares nothing as she writes openly about sex, and mess, and bodies, and emotion, and love, and wanting more of everything. If you endeavor to read this, be prepared for a graphic (and important) exploration of womanhood and all of the ugly and desperate parts of being a woman in this world. It reminded me of Bridget Jones’s Diary– if Bridget were bisexual and Daniel Cleaver were a couple who were into group sex.’ Julie Cohen A piercing insight into the unreal demands modern women place on themselves and told with real humour and energy, we love this book so much’ Stylist

So I think that I am in love with Daisy Buchanan now, which I think will be a common reaction from all the beautiful, sensual, women that read this fantastic piece of work.This book was highly addictive, the kind of thing you could inhale in one sitting. It was in turns funny, sexy and sad, and the author strikes the perfect balance between salaciousness and tenderness. It's filthy in parts (in a good way) but equally, there is so much understanding for Violet and her motivations that I think, in the hands of a lesser author, could have been lost amongst the sex scenes.