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by Nikki Gemmell

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THE RUNAWAY INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER

"The Bride Stripped Bare shows us the inside-out of marriage, infidelity, obsession and taxi drivers (I may never take a cab ride in London again). . . . Few books can be both dark and light. This one dances on the edge, and sometimes crosses it, with much satisfaction to be had on either side."-- Valerie Frankel, author of The Accidental Virgin

An explosive novel of sex, secrecy, and escape.

A woman disappears. Her car lies abandoned on a remote bluff; no body is found. Known by her family and friends as quiet and self-contained, she has left behind an incendiary diary chronicling a disturbing journey of sexual awakening.

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. In need of guidance, she finds an unlikely heroine in the anonymous author of a dusty, rare manuscript. Written by a woman in the 1600s, it is a cry from the heart for women to live and love freely. Emboldened, she allows herself to discover 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, Bride Stripped Bare tells shocking truths about love and sex. Couched in a deceptively simple style, its gorgeous, incantatory rhythms will make you question whether it is ever entirely possible to know another person.

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Your husband doesn't know you're writing this.

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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. She has discovered a forgotten Elizabethan manuscript that dares to speak of what women truly desire, and inspired by its revelations, 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?

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  • Title The Bride Stripped Bare
  • Author Nikki Gemmell
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 371
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Harper Perennial, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 2005-02-01
  • ISBN 9780060591885 / 0060591889
  • Weight 0.77 lbs (0.35 kg)
  • Dimensions 8 x 5.22 x 0.99 in (20.32 x 13.26 x 2.51 cm)
  • Themes
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Category Fiction - Adult
  • Library of Congress subjects London (England), Married women
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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