The winner of this year’s Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction Award says it was an “absolute honour” to win. Rachel Johnson, who was honored for passages in her novel Shire Hell, says in a Guardian report that, “I’m not feeling remotely grumpy about it. I know that men with literary reputations to polish might find it insulting, but if you’ve had a book published in the year any attention is welcome, even if it’s slightly dubious attention of this sort.” Johnson was given especially high marks from the judges for “her novel’s slew of animal metaphors, including comparing her male protagonist’s ‘light fingers’ to ‘a moth caught inside a lampshade’, and his tongue to ‘a cat lapping up a dish of cream so as not to miss a single drop.'” The deputy editor of the Literary Review, Tom Fleming, said he was also “disturbed” by a passage referring to the hero’s penis as “him,” as in a description of the heroine’s “grab, to put him, now angrily slapping against both our bellies, inside.” “It’s a mixture of cliché and euphemism,” said Fleming, “but it’s also very spirited — A plus for effort.”