Books
- The Morning After: Fear, Sex and Feminism (1994)
- Last Night in Paradise: Sex and Morals at the Century's End (1997)
- Still She Haunts Me (2001)
- Uncommon Arrangements: Seven Portraits of Married Life in London Literary Circles 1910-1939 (2007)
"In Praise of Messy Lives" (2012)
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