The Bride Stripped Bare

The Bride Stripped Bare

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The international bestseller – an explosive novel of sex, secrecy and escape. A woman disappears. Her car lies abandoned on a remote bluff; no body is found. She was the good wife, the good mother: mannerly, quiet, self-contained. But she has left behind an incendiary diary chronicling a disturbing journey of sexual awakening. As 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. What begins for her in the imagination ends in a tangle of sheets, in a drowning spiral of obsession and release. She finds an unlikely heroine to inspire her in a dusty, rare manuscript written by an anonymous woman in the 1600s, a cry from the heart for women to live and love freely. With this as guide, she dares to rupture convention, learning, for the first time, 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, THE BRIDE STRIPPED BARE tells shocking truths about love and sex. These are the kind of revelations that best friends whisper to each other and then decide to forget they ever revealed. Couched in a deceptively simple style, it will make you question whether it is ever entirely possible to know another person.

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  Reviewed by yvonne L. | see all reviews by yvonne L.

  16/11/2010

  Well written book exploring the inner struggle the main character has between what she thinks society expects from her, to be regarded a good girl, good wife, and what she actually feels. It is an exploration of herself on an erotic level. It is interesting to view this book with the art work by Marcel Duchamp of the same name in mind.
  
  It is also about independence vs dependence and security, how these issues are so often an either or choice and how a child heightens this vulnerability. It is about marriage and expectations.
  
  It is essentially a story of inner conflict and the compromises (from a woman's point of view) that marriage demands.
  
  Finally, it is also about her relationships with her mother and female best friend, how these influence her.
  
  The anonymity of the author of course has to give the reader a taste of the fantasy of what if...... What if I could explore a sexual fantasy anonymously? What could the consequences be if I had the courage to truly explore my sexuality?
  
  Her descriptions of her growing awareness of her body, especially when pregnant where beautiful.
  
  A marvelous book. Highly recommended.
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