All this fuss about Fifty Shades of Grey! I wonder how many people have actually read all three books? Sado-masochism is only half the story. When you’ve waded through the entire oeuvre, if such appalling writing can be dignified with that term, you discover that the whole story is one of redemption.
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Virginia Ironside’s latest book, Yes! I Can Manage, Thank You! is published next week. She writes an agony-aunt column, ‘Dilemmas’, for the Independent.
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