Insatiable (novel)

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Insatiable
Cover of UK paperback edition
Author	Valerie Tasso
Translator	Nick Caistor
Country	France
Language	French
Genre(s)	Memoir
Publisher	Corgi Books
Publication date	2005
Media type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages	331 pp

Insatiable (2005) is the autobiographical novel from French PR worker Valerie Tasso.

[edit] Plot summary

The book begins with her as a confident and sexually adventurous senior PR worker. On a business trip to Peru she decides to have sex with a fat and unattractive man:

'Then he started fumbling at the lower part of my body, getting his podgy fingers stuck in the elastic of my panties .... He really was clumsy, and his face was bathed in a clammy sweat.'

After she loses her job and is deceived and robbed of her savings by her Spanish boyfriend Jaime, she decides to become a call-girl to pay off her debts. The book then deals with the internal politics of the brothel, the other girls and the various clients. Tasso finds the experience an interesting one, despite a few scrapes, unpleasantness of some of the other girls and ruthlessness of the manager, Manolo.

Having made the sum of money she set out to make, she falls in love with a client, Giovanni, and decides to leave the business. Ultimately her relationship with Giovanni does not last.