Jeremy Acidophilus is stunned by the beauty of Lady Henrietta as he notices her at a café.So it`s not surprising that he is happy when she steps up to him and starts a little conversation , even more so because he`s such a shy guy. But contrary to this he accepts as Lady Henrietta, who turns out to be a painter of nude men for art`s sake and for Playgirl, offers him to pose for her. He thinks he`s falling in love with her then he gets to know her precocious, voluptuous eleven-year-old daughter who seduces Jeremy.

In her first novel Amanda Filipacchi shows us a very witty, fresh and sometimes rather bizzar piece of our society and the average type of office worker Jeremy, who finds himself trapped in a conflict of moral codes, love and sexual attraction. Even though in times of rapes of children and other cruel things this might not sound very funny but A. Filipacchi takes us into a world of emotions and inner conflicts which seem so realistic that you will suffer and share the happiness of the characters in this book. 

But most of the time you will be laughing.

“What if Humbert were more hapless and Lolita downright lewd, her mother only to eager to conspire in seduction?Add to this a talking cat, a magician whose success depends on her lack of talent, a parrot who quotes Kubler-Ross, and any number of nude men. Playfull, perverse and wonderfully funny, it`s hard to say whether Amanda Filipacchi`s first novel is rescue from or a fatal ease of the human condition. Either way, here is an irresistible introduction to a sublimely precocious writer.” – Kathrin Harrison, author of Exposure