02059cam a2200325 i 4500 623784950 TxAuBib 20090226120000.0 030605s2003||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2003049244 9780007162260 000716226X (OCoLC)52424235 DLC eng rda DLC DLC TxAuBib rda Gemmell, Nikki. The bride stripped bare : a novel / Anonymous ; with an afterword by the author. New York : Fourth Estate, 2003. 374 pages ; 19 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier 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." -- Coolly impassioned, The Bride Stripped Bare tells startling truths about love and sex. It will make you question whether it is ever entirely possible to know another person. 20090226. Married women Fiction. Erotic stories. Marrakech (Morocco) Fiction. London (England) Fiction. Fiction. TXKPL