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Published: 14th January 2025
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Published: 10th December 2024
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Published: 30th September 2025
How Was It for You: The Lives and Loves of a Sex Worker
By (Author) Eve Smith
Pan Macmillan
Picador
30th September 2025
19th June 2025
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
Sex and sexuality, social aspects
True stories of survival of abuse and injustice
Erotic confessions and true stories
306.74092
Paperback
336
Width 130mm, Height 197mm, Spine 20mm
230g
The author of How Was It for You is a sex worker. Let's call her Eve. Eve is someone's daughter. Someone's partner. Eve has worked across the sex industry for twenty years: in a brothel, as an escort, in a strip club, online and as a dominatrix. In this candid memoir she reveals all: the good stuff, the bad, and the downright ugly too. We're with her poolside as she sips Champagne at a wealthy client's Caribbean villa. We scurry with her from a gated mansion as a fun threesome gets out of hand. We watch from the public gallery as she is dragged in and out of court by the law. We perch at her side in a cell as she contemplates the true meaning of freedom. And we're at the brothel when she meets Adam, a punter who turns out to be a keeper. Honest, eye-opening, full of fury and frequently funny, How Was It for You is a unique insight into what's happening in society's shadows and an unforgettable walk in someone else's high heels. 'It is heartening to find humour and a glimmer of hope' - Jo Brand 'Unflinching . . . Everyone should read this book' - Emily Edwards, author of The Herd Eve Smith is a pseudonym. Any links to persons living or dead is coincidental.
In the shadowy world of sex work, something which most of us know little about, it is heartening to find humour and a glimmer of hope -- Jo Brand
Everyone should read this book -- Emily Edwards, author of The Herd
Eve Smith has worked for over twenty years in almost all areas of the sex industry: in a brothel, as an escort, a hostess, in a strip club, online and as a dominatrix. She lives and works in the north of England. How Was It for You is her first book.