Exactly how steamy is this story?
PG-13
There aren't any steamy bedroom shenanigans in the novel's present tense, but its characters certainly spend their fair share of time thinking about sex.
On the day of her party, Clarissa Vaughan is swept up in memories of the summer when she was eighteen years old and sleeping with Richard Brown. As Laura Brown confronts her deep unhappiness with her life as a married woman, she thinks about the differences between her husband's sexual desires and her own. As Clarissa's partner, Sally, hurries home with roses for her lady, she tries to remember the last time that the two of them made love.
Not too steamy, but not not steamy.