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Sleeping Around
Secrets of a Sexual Adventuress
- Author: Catherine Townsend
- Category: Non-fiction
- Publisher: John Murray
- Pub date: June 2007
- Length: 288 pages
About Sleeping Around
Threesomes, sorbet sex, drunk dialling, multiple orgasms, girly gossip-swaps, buying silk underwear – welcome to dating the modern girl’s way. ‘I relish every second of my sexual encounters: the good, the bad, the bizarre. Most of my serious relationships have started out as one-night stands.’ Catherine Townsend describes herself as ‘part slut, part hopeless romantic’. Her quest is to have her cake and eat it – an intelligent dinner date followed by a passionate one-night stand; to combine sleeping around with finding a soul mate.
‘Sex in the City’ meets Girl With a One Track Mind, this is a candid, sexy, funny take on looking for love in unexpected places, and the wrong way to find Mr Right – or at least Mr Right Now…
About the Author
Catherine Townsend is 29 and grew up in Georgia, USA. She worked in New York as a journalist contributing to such magazines as New York Magazine and Vanity Fair before moving to London three years ago. As well as writing a sex and dating column for the Independent, Catherine contributes to Glamour, Cosmopolitan and Marie Claire.