The Bride Stripped Bare by Nikki Gemmell
The international bestseller – an explosive novel of sex, secrecy and escape.
A woman disappears. Her car lies abandoned on a remote bluff; no body is found. She was the good wife, the good mother: mannerly, quiet, self-contained. But she has left behind an incendiary diary chronicling a disturbing journey of sexual awakening.
As the diary opens on her honeymoon in Morocco, she believes herself to be happy – or happy enough, anyway. Swiftly, this security masquerading as love fractures in an act of massive betrayal, only to propel her into a world of desire and fantasy and recklessness. What begins for her in the imagination ends in a tangle of sheets, in a drowning spiral of obsession and release. She dares to rupture convention, learning, for the first time, the intoxicating power of knowing what she wants and how to get it. The question is, how long can her soul sustain a perilous double life?
Coolly impassioned, The Bride Stripped Bare tells shocking truths about love and sex. These are the kind of revelations that best friends whisper to each other and then decide to forget they ever revealed. Couched in a deceptively simple style, it will make you question whether it is ever entirely possible to know another person.
Format: Paperback | 373 pages
Dimensions (cm): 19.8 x 12.9 x 2.8 | 396g
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2014
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Australia
Imprint: Angus & Robertson
Publication City/Country: Sydney, Australia
Language: English
ISBN10: 0007550731
ISBN13: 9780007550739
Condition: Good
A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including very minor scuff marks along the edges, but no holes or tears. The majority of pages are undamaged with very minimal creasing (a minor crease on pgs: 1/2. No other creasing in the book.), but no tearing. No pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. No missing pages.