Sugar Daddy Diaries: When a Fantasy Became an Obsession

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The confessional memoir of a TV journalist who sets out to explore her guilty fantasy of dating a rich older man Frustrated with her stalled career as a broadcast journalist and uninspired by dating naive and needy guys her own age, Helen Croydon joins a website to seek an older man. She expects it to be just a few fun dates in some fancy bars but finds herself propelled into a world of Prada shopping trips, fine dining, first-class travel and fascinating, powerful men. Helen's soul-searching dating adventures take her to New York, Malaysia, highbrow sex parties, top ski resorts and London's finest hotels. When one of her dates alludes to a monthly allowance, she is shocked, but how long will her resistance to the idea last Sugar Daddy Diaries is a confessional true story that questions modern ideals about relationships, examines the attraction of power and asks if money can ever be the currency of love.

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A fascinating insight into Helen's world of highbrow sex parties, international globetrotting and high-powered, successful men (Book of the Week) * Cosmopolitan *
[Helen's] juicy adventures will keep you hooked! * Closer *
Searingly honest . . . a fast-paced trip into a world most of us will never get to access * News of the World *
An enlightening, exceptionally well-written confessional that makes us question our preconceptions about relationships * Manchester Evening Standard *

Author Bio

Helen Croydon is a freelance journalist, broadcaster and relationship commentator, specialising in topics surrounding modern relationships, sex, love and attraction. She writes regularly for various national newspapers and magazines and has a monthly column in The Erotic Review.