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A woman disappears, leaving behind an incendiary diary chronicling a journey of sexual awakening. To all who knew her, she was the Good Wife: happy, devoted, content. But the diary reveals a secret self, one who's discovered that her new marriage contains mysteries of its own. Inspired by a manuscript written by an anonymous Elizabethan woman who dared to speak of what women truly desire, she tastes for the first time the intoxicating power of knowing what she wants and how to get it. The question is, How long can she sustain a perilous double life?" "In writing The Bride Stripped Bare, the author decided to remain anonymous so she would feel absolutely free to explore a woman's inner world. As she writes in her afterword, "That doesn't mean this book is a memoir; it's many things to me, fiction and nonfiction, fantasy and fact, a quilt pieced together not only from my stories but those of my friends. (Source: Trove)
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Originally published anonymously.
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Bestselling Australian book from April 2003-March 2004 (Australian Publishers Association survey.)
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Let's Write About Sex
2013
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— Appears in: The Advertiser , 29 June 2013; (p. 6) -
Drawing Room : Amal Awad and Nikki Gemmel
Waleed Aly
(interviewer),
2012
single work
interview
— Appears in: ABC News [Online] , May 2012; What do women want, in a literary sense and is it any different from what men want in a book? Simple questions with very complicated answers and to help solve the quandary, two female writers who appeared at the 2012 Sydney Writers' Festival are interviewed by Aly Waleed. [From the ABC webpage, with slight modification] -
Looking at Love in All Its Guises
2011
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— Appears in: Sunday Canberra Times , 9 October 2011; (p. 4-5) -
Pleasure of the Next Text
2006
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— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 10 December 2006; (p. 45) -
I'll Tell You All - Except My Name
2006
single work
essay
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 18-19 November 2006; (p. 28-29)Kate Holden explores her curiosity at the use of pseudonyms by women writers of erotic literature. She concludes 'Playfulness, coyness, mystique and titillation are part of the erotic. In the age of bold women and admirable authors, though, it seems a shame to be so shy. It may be that "Anonymous" has the allure of teasing seduction, but a tease can go on only so long before it starts to look like apprehension.'
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Behind the Sex There's a Heart at Work
2003
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review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 13 July 2003; (p. 10)
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A Web of Lies and Sexual Betrayal
2003
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— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 26 July 2003; (p. 5a)
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Going Private in Public
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 26-27 July 2003; (p. 3) Creme de la Phlegm : Unforgettable Australian Reviews 2006; (p. 386-388)
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One Book a Week
2003
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— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 2-3 August 2003; (p. 10)
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Bride Wears Emperor's New Clothes
2003
single work
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— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 2 August 2003; (p. 6)
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The Author Stripped Bare
2003
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— Appears in: The Age , 28 June 2003; (p. 3) The Sydney Morning Herald , 28-29 June 2003; (p. 3) -
Sex and the Frustrated Housewife
2003
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— Appears in: The Advertiser , 12 July 2003; (p. 4-5) -
The Best is in Your Mind
2003
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— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 26-27 July 2003; (p. 2, 6) -
Too Much Information
2003
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 2-3 August 2003; (p. 25) Symons canvasses some recent 'confessional' writing and examines issues of literary merit. She also discusses the phenomenon of 'over-sharing' and its propensity for making the private universal. -
Sex with the Hubby - Just Think of a Fat Cabbie
2003
single work
column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 29-30 November 2003; (p. 1, 11)
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