A provocative novel about intimacy, love and consent: Open Wide will quite literally get under your skin'Unputdownable' MARIE-HELENE BERTINO'Strange, ominous and darkly alluring' PENG SHEPHERDBy the time we-d said -I love you- and kissed goodnight and turned out the light, thoughts of whether to resist had left my mind. I had climbed inside his body, and now he was stirring. Olive is desperate to get close to Theo - really, really close. Despite being a radio host, she-s always struggled to connect with people. And now she-s in her thirties, single, and so flustered by relationships that she secretly records her conversations, hoping to decipher social clues and find a way to be less alone. Then Theo turns up for a shift at the food pantry where she volunteers. He-s a surgeon fascinated by human organs, a former football player, and possibly as weird as Olive. For the first time, someone seems to crave and understand her. Every recording Olive makes of Theo is a balm - which just makes
