Wants and Needs

Thoughtful, fresh and intelligent (and so wryly funny), Roxy Dunn writes so smoothly about the limitations - and liberations - of adult love with such delicacy and honesty. This is a timely novel about things that are, conversely, timeless - self-worth, desire and the deep questions of the heart * Claire Daverley, author of Talking at Night *
An unconventional love story with comedic chops … Funny, witty and fast-paced, I tore through it on a Sunday afternoon’ * Independent *
Narrated by a refreshingly offbeat heroine, Wants and Needs is a thoroughly amusing coming-of-age (in your thirties) novel written with wit, honesty and tenderness * Claire Powell, author of At The Table *
In this smart novel about post- break- up drift, dating apps and ethical non- monogamy Dunn writes frankly about dependency and self knowledge, drawing you in with her protagonist’s messy experiment in love * The i, 2026’s Biggest Books *
Roxy Dunn is oh so good on love. The big feelings. The thinking (and overthinking). The thrills and the spills. Wants and Needs is witty, warm and seriously sexy. A story about what we desire and deserve * Chloë Ashby, author of Family Friends *
From the author of As Young as This comes a razor-sharp tale of what happens when life doesn’t work out the way you hoped it would. At 32, Misty is back in her childhood bedroom after breaking up with her fiancé. She hits the dating apps and finds herself trying non-monogamy in an attempt to learn how to become less attached * Elle *
Dunn’s novel asks the kind of questions that keep most of us up at night: what’s the difference between what we want and what we need? And can we learn to care – or possibly, to love – less? * Stylist *
Desperately sad and desperately entertaining … I just knew I was going to inhale it when I read that first page. So enjoyable and well observed and the writing is just so good and moreish. I loved it * Catherine Airey, author of Confessions *
This book needs to be read by people who don’t have it all figured out but think everyone else does … It’s an absolutely fantastic book, and I can’t wait to read more by Dunn * The Bookish Drop, Substack *
A funny, deeply perceptive novel about desire, commitment, and the drastic (sometimes questionable) measures we’ll take to avoid ourselves. Dunn writes with an honesty and intimacy that would be scary if the book wasn’t also so much fun * Morgan Dick, author of Favourite Daughter *

Roxy’s debut novel, As Young as This, was sold at auction and was a Best Book of 2024 in The Independent, Harper’s Bazaar, Stylist, Cosmopolitan, and Sunday Times Style. She is also a screenwriter and alumna of the BBC Comedy Room. Her scripts have been optioned by several production companies, and her pilot Useless Millennials was commissioned and broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Wants and Needs is her second novel.

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