I Take You

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From the author of the bestsellers The Bride Stripped Bare and With My Body, a new twist on a classic tale of passion.

Set in Notting Hill, this modern-day version of Lady Chatterleys Lover sees a bankers wife awaken to the erotic possibilities of her life.

Connie Carven is devoted to her husband, who is paralysed from the waist down following an accident. But her devotion is what he demands in fact, he insists on Connies utter subservience to his every desire. But unable to physically satisfy his wife, Clifford is eager to explore new, strange and troubling avenues of passion. Connie, ever the dutiful wife, follows wherever he leads, no matter what the cost to her.

And yet Connie is bursting with unfulfilled desire. Unfulfilled, that is, until the communal gardener enters, and their affair accelerates to its tense, shuddering conclusion.

Reviews

Praise for The Bride Stripped Bare:

'Starkly explicitrichly descriptive with a fast-paced narrative' Sunday Telegraph

'Nikki Gemmel's prose has a wonderful sensuousnesswittya subtle portrait of a modern and rather alienating marriage' Lisa Appignanesi, Independent Magazine

'Must readA tale of sexual awakening for the dark horse in all of us' Tatler

The sex is well-writtenGemmell is refreshingly straightforward about the act' Melanie McGrath, Evening Standard

'Easy to read, hard to put down. Keep an extinguisher handy' Closer

'A page-turner' Evening Standard

'A bored housewife embarks on a life of sexual pleasureThe sex is rude and raunchy and "exactly where you want it"' Elle

'Personal dilemmas are bravely explored; thoughts and fantasies about sex and infidelity, which most women have learned to keep to themselves, are laid bare on the page in all their shocking glorybrutal, brilliant and addictive' Glasgow Herald

Author Bio

Nikki Gemmells unmasking as the 'anonymous' author of The Bride Stripped Bare sparked tremendous media interest in the book, which went on to become an international bestseller.