Possibly. “Krantz was the ‘queen of the bonkbuster,’ those glitzy novels with their gaudy covers and snappy often one-word titles – Scruples, Lace, Rivals – that dominated commercial fiction in the late 1970s and 1980s, spinning stories of fabulous lives lived at full tilt and stuffed full of sex, secrets and shopping.” But they were so much more than that: “They are also part of a rich tradition of novels which place women’s interior lives and, most importantly, their sexual desires centre-stage.” – The Observer (UK)