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The Further Adventures of a London Call Girl
- Author: Belle de Jour
- Category: Non-fiction
- Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- Pub date: 14 September 2006
- Length: 288 pages
About The Further Adventures of a London Call Girl
Continuing on from the international success of THE INTIMATE ADVENTURES…, Belle de Jour returns with a new diary – and plenty of new adventures up her sleeve.
Commenting on everything from how to get out of the sex industry to negotiating the shark-infested waters of straight jobs and single-partner sex, Belle records the changes in her life with the same wit, insight and personality that made her first book so notorious.
Will she stay straight, or is the pull of being a former sex worker too strong? Is dating an ex-hooker too much for her long-suffering boyfriend? Is it ever the right time to tell family and friends exactly what she’s been up to since university? And if she comes clean, what on earth will the neighbours think?
In this much anticipated companion volume, Belle deals with how to handle infidelity without being a hypocrite, how to gloss over the Grand Canyon gaps in her CV, and how to juggle the pressure of success with the desire for a normal life. From exotic holidays to family weddings, Belle records it all with a voice that is still as funny and frank as when she was turning tricks.
About the Author
Belle de Jour and her Internet diary came to widespread popular attention in the UK when she won the Guardian’s Best-Written Blog Award in December 2003 (she was shortlisted for the American equivalent in 2004). Her witty and frank observations of working in the sex trade and also of the common concerns of many young women living in the metropolis – dating, shopping, parents, partners, career – struck a chord with readers who flocked to the website. Even before the frantic media interest in the anonymous author’s identity, the site was registering around 20,000 hits every day. With the publication of THE INTIMATE ADVENTURES OF A LONDON CALL GIRL, her anecdotal memoirs of sex clients and family lunches, of bondage and home decorating, of perverts and boyfriends became a fully fledged book, and Belle de Jour the Bridget Jones for the post-’Sex and the City’ generation.