the bride stripped bare nikki gemmell summary

Secondly, just what changed in Nikki Gemmell that she went from timid authoress, to an authority on all things sex, openly confessing the character in the book is based partly upon herself? Suddenly, the woman too afraid to talk to her husband about her nipples is writing sex advice columns in national papers. Upon tiring of all this self-discovery, she returns to her husband, not exactly thrilled, but somewhat content.

Deciding she must do something to regain her sexual identity, she engages in a lusty affair with a virginous Latin hunk, and bonks a couple of jokers in a taxicab. Or, if she does, doesn’t find it nearly as suspicious or insulting as I do.įirst things first: The Bride Stripped Bare, dedicated “to every husband”, is about a sexually unsatisfied woman who finds talking to her husband about sex embarrassing and difficult, which is to say she doesn’t like having her nipples played with during sex, yet is somehow unable to tell her husband so. Apparently, she doesn’t see the contradiction. Author Nikki Gemmell’s goal with the book was to write a “scrupulously honest” tale about sex within marriage, stating that the only way she felt able to do so was anonymously. Either by a clever woman with an eye for marketing, or by a naive Pollyanna who refuses to take responsibility for her sexual inadequacies. Everyone’s read it and everyone has an opinion on it. Seems the punters just can’t get enough of this sexcapade of a book, proclaiming itself a revelatory dissertation on what women really want in bed.

The Bride Stripped Bare was Australia’s best-selling local book in 2003, and is still floating somewhere in the national top ten. But the truth is that the curse of being me is also the blessing of being me. I’ve considered changing my name, publishing novels under a nom de plume.

The bride stripped bare nikki gemmell summary