.. to feel uncomfortable bout this book loan ..

trisher I have already said, I am not trying to censor my daughter's reading material, I have no problem with her reading this book per se.

Thanks to everyone for their input, you've given me lots of advice and different perspectives, it's been very helpful.

Result! I went into the charity bookshop and there was an immaculate hardback copy waiting for me on the shelf. I found nothing steamy, sleazy and in a sense there is no explicit sex, it's over before we get there!
What you do get us the story of a remarkable woman involved in an intimate relationship which she knows is almost certainly about to end. Her cool, thoughtful, insight and assessment of her circumstances is precisely described.
This is not the erotic book which some posters think they are writing about.
The person who served me recommended Waterland as being Graham Swift's best work. Like Last Orders, Mothering Sunday unhurriedly looks at the complication of the human circumstance.