Bride Stripped Bare

<p><strong>THE RUNAWAY INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER</strong></p><p><strong><em>The Bride Stripped Bare</em> 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 <em>The Accidental Virgin</em></strong></p><p><strong>An explosive novel of sex secrecy and escape.</strong></p><p><strong>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.</strong></p><p>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?</p><p>Coolly impassioned <em> Bride Stripped Bare</em> 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.</p>