Rowan Pelling

The mystery of female desire deepens

When Gillian Anderson appealed to women to send her their sexual fantasies, she guaranteed strict anonymity – prompting a ‘torrent of unbridled passion from across the world’

Gillian Anderson, the editor of the collection and an object of fantasy herself. [Getty Images]

  • Want: Sexual Fantasies

    submitted by Anonymous, collected by Gillian Anderson

    Bloomsbury, pp. 400, £18

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