A debut novel chronicles the sexual coming-of-age of a young woman through her relationships with ten men, including a virgin, a billionaire, an actor, an intellectual, and a director, among others. 35,000 first printing. $50,000 ad/promo.
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About the Author:
Alexandra Gray lives in Notting Hill, West London. This is her first book.
From Booklist:
Gray introduces an intelligent if sometimes misguided heroine who learns about life and love with real grit and spirit. Desperate to escape her mother's stifling Catholic home, our heroine marries a schoolmaster at a men's boarding school on a French island but quickly discovers that island life and a workaholic husband don't fulfill her need for pleasure and adventure. She soon leaves him to pursue love as a single girl. True to the book's title, she describes 10 of her conquests, from the Virgin, a snobbish 40-year-old, through the Lord, a Brit more than twice her age, and on to the Billionaire, a sugar daddy who finances her American acting education. But these relationships really only leave our heroine with the same shallow notion about relationships that plague many men--the notion that love amounts only to the thrill of the chase. Reminiscent of Lucinda Rosenfeld's What She Saw (2000), Gray's debut brings warm, bracing insight to the classic chic-lit story of a young woman in transition. Misha Stone
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- PublisherAtlantic Monthly Press
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0871138913
- ISBN 13 9780871138910
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages256
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