Jenni talks to Charlotte Roche, the author of “Wetlands”, a new novel that’s been described as “evoking the voice of JD Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, the perversion of JG Ballard’s Crash and the feminist agenda of The Female Eunuch”. It’s the story of a vulnerable 18-year-old stuck in hospital who is obsessed with the possibilities and extremes of her own body. And it's an extraordinarily explicit book that’s generated some strong reactions already and become a bestseller in Germany, where its author lives. Publication of “Wetlands”, Fourth Estate £12.99, February 9th 2009, ISBN 978-0-00-729670-5
