A Maiden So Bewitching

From the highly-acclaimed northern Irish novelist Colm Herron comes this outrageously sexy offering about a desperate Irishman called Lexie Cheddy, an only child. Lexie's mother has always wanted a daughter so that's how she brings him up. As a daughter. And she names him Alexis. To add to his troubles he falls on his head at the age of fourteen and a half and when he wakes up he's a genius. (Condition known as Acquired Savant Syndrome). Lexie is now seventy-one and has long been banished to the outer reaches of the marriage bed by a wife for whom sex is but a vague and distasteful memory.

So, greatly in need of a relief valve, our hero starts up a blog site supposedly written by a teenage bisexual girl called Denise whose current squeeze is a hunk called Huncan. Result: Lexie gets to be both Denise and Huncan. This is convenient because he himself is a closet bisexual. Complications set in however when Isabella, a teenage blog reader of confused gender, asks if she can fly to Ireland to spend a romantic three-day holiday with Denise and Huncan - and Lexie impulsively accepts ....