In At the Deep End is about Julia, a twenty something sexually frustrated woman living in London. She lives with her friend, Alice and Alice’s boyfriend, Dave. Julia experiments with sex with a girl and realizes she is actually a lesbian. She enters a relationship with Sam, a dominant who wants an open relationship with BDSM qualities. The book examines ideas of what it means to be gay, to be a feminist, what abusive relationships actually look like. There is a lot you can unpack from what is written. I liked Julia and really enjoyed her friends, particularly Dave, Owen, and Alice. Her relationship with her parents was lovely and real. The book was missing something for me that would take it to the next level.