It is better than the sensationalist bonk-fest its publicity implied, and better than the feeble chick lit its punning title suggests. It doesn't feature any gay sex (though quite a lot of straight sex is suggested, in the manner of a mid-raunch-level Mills & Boon). As it turned out, the book was not necessarily forbidden from the Dubai Festival of Literature, as its author originally implied. Anyone picking up The Gulf Between Us as a scandalous banned book involving gay sex with an Arab sheikh: don't.
