Straight Up and Dirty [Paperback]

When Stephanie Klein hit her twenty-fourth birthday she thought she had everything she could possibly have wanted from life: a good job, a successful husband, a Manhattan apartment and a baby on the way.

By the time she hit thirty it was all gone; her husband and her baby lost. She was left to start again with a whole new life and an entirely depleted cast of characters. Her only company was her 'Furkid' (the small brown dog she now shared a bed with). Her friend told her to get out dating again and to employ the sandwich principle - keep one man on either side, and enjoy the interesting one in-between. So she set off, with much trepidation and wardrobe anxiety, to discover single sex all over again...

The weblog she kept of her new found freedom and sexual adventures became a sensation in the States. Her brilliantly funny, acerbic descriptions of love, life and dating bought her press and acclaim. Straight up and Dirty is Stephanie's funnier than comedy, truer than romance, sexier than fiction account of her journey.

Stephanie Klein believed she had everything that could ever make her happy: a luxury Manhattan apartment, a successful career and a gorgeous doctor husband. Gabriel...

So, when Stephanie learns about her husband's illicit liaisons with a Fifth Avenue lady, she's heartbroken and plunges herself into another, completely different life: one in which she is forced to make a choice between nights in with a take-away and her faithful dog, or nights out on the town.

Embracing singledom with open arms and much wardrobe anxiety, Stephanie bravely sets out to explore New York's ruthless dating scene; where the men and their quirks are as varied as the cocktails they buy her. And she discovers that success in life, like success in finding the right man, is never simply about fulfilling a checklist...

'...beneath the wisecracking tales of solo supermarket shopping and phone therapy, the raw emotion about her divorce and nightmare mother-in-law rings true' Marie Claire