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Praise for The Bride Stripped Bare:
'Starkly explicit…richly descriptive with a fast-paced narrative' Sunday Telegraph
'Nikki Gemmel's prose has a wonderful sensuousness…witty…a subtle portrait of a modern and rather alienating marriage' Lisa Appignanesi, Independent Magazine
'Must read…A tale of sexual awakening for the dark horse in all of us' Tatler
‘The sex is well-written…Gemmell is refreshingly straightforward about the act' Melanie McGrath, Evening Standard
'Easy to read, hard to put down. Keep an extinguisher handy' Closer
'A page-turner' Evening Standard
'A bored housewife embarks on a life of sexual pleasure…The sex is rude and raunchy and "exactly where you want it"' Elle
'Personal dilemmas are bravely explored; thoughts and fantasies about sex and infidelity, which most women have learned to keep to themselves, are laid bare on the page in all their shocking glory…brutal, brilliant and addictive' Glasgow Herald
--This text refers to the Paperback edition.Product Description
In 2003 Nikki Gemmell created a sensation when, writing under the tag ‘Anonymous’, her novel The Bride Stripped Bare became a literary phenomenon, with its raw and unflinching depiction of female sexuality.
Now, eight years later, Gemmell returns with another tour de force, With My Body, and addresses the question of what is intimacy and whether it is ever truly possible to know another person. It is at once a manifesto of married mothers everywhere and a highly personal story of one woman’s sexual awakening.
A wife, comfortably married and with three children, is contemplating middle age along with all the constraints of motherhood. Finding herself numb and locked down in an unending cycle of school runs, laundry and meal times, she cannot at first see a way to live with honesty. Even her husband, whom she loves, has never reached the core of her. Despairing of ever finding a way through her family to her own identity, she returns to the the memory of an old love affair – the consequences of which she has never resolved. She goes back to her past and confronts it, and the result is an exhilarating examination of present-day desire.
With My Body is exquisitely raw, emotional and bold, and deeply resonant of the classic French erotic writings of Colette, Nin and Duras – but with a modern and provocative twist.
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A woman with three young boys who, on the surface, is happily married, realises she's feeling tired and helplessly trapped in her life. She's lost interest in sex and feels fed up with the challenges of motherhood and its irritations. She wonders what's missing from her married life. 'Love should be empowering not eviscerating'. She longs to feel alive again and recalls the passion she experienced during an intense relationship as a teenager with an older man.
The middle half of the book reverts back in time to this passionate love affair and is very sensual, raw, erotic and poetic.
As an adult and a woman struggling with her loss of identity she revisits this relationship. Along the way she deals with other unresolved issues from her youth. She faces the grief she felt as a child whose father withheld his love, and she also forgives her stepmother's hatred -in part by simply accepting that they are totally different people.
Though revisiting the infatuated love of her younger days and learning about love between a parent and child she feels liberated and sees things in a new light. 'We have come to view life in its entirety, instead of agonisingly puzzling over its disjointed parts'. She feels empowered in middle age, there is a reawakening of her own sexuality and she shows her husband a sexual self she's never dared reveal before.
'Love vividly and with passion... We must wring as much happiness as we can out of life during our allotted time on this earth...Seize that happiness and be content with it'.
'Act with audacity. To be noticed. Free. Strong. To live life the way you want. That is your burden - and the great adventure ahead'.
A sensual, honest, modern story about love.
For any fans of A bride stripped bare, this is just as good if not better.
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