![]() ![]() ![]() Your adulthood has been a progressive retreat from curiosity and wonder, an endless series of delays and procrastinations. He seems unaware that she has never had an orgasm, so it is hardly surprising that he doesn't realise she is having an affair. Nikki Gemmell, The Bride Stripped Bare tags: loneliness, marriage 11 likes Like No one except your husband knows of the cautiousness at the heart of your life. The husband in The Bride Stripped Bare is a decent bloke in many ways, but utterly oblivious to his wife's sexual discontent. "He's read a bit in the past and said, 'It's all about your past relationships: I just don't want to know.' And I can argue 'til I'm blue in the face and he says, 'I don't want to know, I'm not interested.' And I thought with this one it could just pass him by."īut he had read it, just a couple of days before our interview. "He's Wodehouse and John Mortimer, he's not into my kind of books," she says. Gemmell's husband knew she had written a book she wanted to keep anonymous, but he had not read it. Mum on the other hand, when I rang her, was so excited by the fact it is going to be an erotic novel. "And he said to me, 'Darling, is it all right if I just say I'm so proud of her, and then hang up?' and I thought wow! That is the first time he's ever said that to me. ![]()
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