Publisher's Synopsis
THE TIES THAT BIND'We are girls in love with each other, and we are lesbians because we have no other means of being sexually intimate'.That's Olivia, always able to make her point somewhat differently, as she takes the reader through an astonishing narration of the coming together of three very beautiful childhood best friends, at first unthinkingly in the closet, because it happens to be an extension of their daily relationship.Yet, when their mothers tell them it is stupid to hide, they launch a very arrogant and public assault on prejudice against LGBT people, and come up with an idea that could go some way towards making the world accept 'closet' matters as natural.Explicit when she needs to be, Olivia enchants with a narrative dripping innocence, displaying their fascination with each other, as they behave just like everyone else does when first entering the magic world of sexual relations.Outrageously hilarious, without meaning to be so, she lets us have the workings of her mind when, in the course of a stressful sex game, she loses her cool and threatens to walk out of the love affair. That gets her thrashed by Mandy and Louisa, who later burst into tears on seeing the different colors of her two bum cheeks.More tearful misunderstandings follow, but when everything is sorted out, it is sex again, and then Olivia gets the Scandinavian treatment for spanked bums! (Apparently, Scandinavian women are the most heavily spanked females on the planet, 'because they are naughty, something extra' - and that is why they have the best medical procedures for spanked bums.)At one level, this is a serious book, but it is also explicitly sexual and nonstop fun. Nothing evil ever enters, as these girls clearly know nothing of werewolves, daddies, brothers, shape shifters, rapists, impregnators, and the other dirty things that have crowded decent folks out of the world.And there's more good news. Olivia promises to tell us how they get on when they take men (real human males) into their lives! No indication is given of whether they share men or not.