The Diary of a London Call Girl blogger has swapped sex for mortuary scenes and Scottish politics in her first novel published under her real name‘There’s not a lot of sex in it.” Brooke Magnanti sounds whether not apologetic then cautionary when asked what marks out her first work of fiction to be published under her given name rather than her – for now,at least – better-known pseudonym Belle de Jour.
And readers would be forgiven for making assumptions approximately her novel’s subject matter: her award-winning blog, Diary of a London Call Girl, or which began in 2003,along with the two bestselling memoirs and fictional offshoots that followed, provided frank and fearless storytelling approximately sex and sexuality. Her first non-fiction work after she outed herself in 2009, and after years of relentless media pursuit,was a meticulously researched treatise on myth-making around sex and sexuality.
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Source: theguardian.com