Agnes Green is 21 years old and believes herself to be stuck in the downtrodden town she lives in with her religious mother and younger sister, cleaning houses for a living. When the daughter of a client, Emily, takes an interest in Agnes and introduces her to the world of 'Sugar Babies', Agnes moves to London and begins a glamorous lifestyle beyond her wildest imaginations.

This was a really enjoyable read that I flew through in under 2 days. Agnes as a main character is refreshing and someone you want to see get the best in life - we follow her as she deals with the religious trauma she feels growing up under a 'fire and brimstone' religious mother, and a childhood that equated sex and sensuality with hell. During Sugar, Baby, Agnes steps into her role as a beautiful woman and for the first time in her life, takes back the power she always felt beyond her grasp and owns herself as a woman who can make men fall to her knees - and while she still struggles, she stops being so ashamed of her sexuality and her enjoyment of carnal pleasure.

It seemed absurd not to make the most of its potential for pleasure when the pain came guaranteed

Agnes is also a woman of colour, and we see her experience is a bit different to that of her sugar baby friends, not only due to her skin colour but also her working class background - she doesn't have a rich family she can fall back on, and can't take off to family holiday homes when it all gets too much. It's not just a bit of fun to Agnes, but the only means she has to make a living.

I also enjoyed that while some alarming things did happen to Agnes, nothing happened that really hurt her or was against her own wishes (there could be a discussion about this in terms of Gloria's money/the Miami party but I think we still see Agnes 'in control' of the sexual interactions she had during that. Not to say that, as Agnes says herself, there might be delayed trauma response to it all). We see Agnes play at her Sugar Baby lifestyle, really give it a go, have a good fun with it as she says to Jess, and then decide if she wants to keep at it.

This book is fresh, sexy and fun with a touch of risque and glamour that makes it different and enjoyable.