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'Under her Chanel suit and designer lingerie, Connie Carven is no longer the typical banker′s wife. Since Cliff′s dreadful skiing accident Connie has become a willing submissive to her husband′s every desire.
While at first she enjoys a perverse sense of freedom within the ever-tightening bonds of her marriage, this dark and seductive passion consumes her entirely. She finds herself surrendering to an act that will forever remind her that she belongs to her husband alone - to be unlocked only by him, whenever he pleases.
But it is this that awakens Connie from her slumber. In the communal garden of her Notting Hill home, she meets Mel and discovers the thrill of true intimacy.
As the author of the bestselling phenomenon The Bride Stripped Bare and the exquisite With My Body, Nikki Gemmell brought erotic writing into the 21st century; she now looks back to Lady Chatterley′s Lover for inspiration. D.H. Lawrence′s celebrated tale of desire is retold for today and the deliciously provocative I Take You is a modern love story, both earthily passionate and wickedly tantalising.' (Publisher's blurb)
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Taking Liberties with Mel and Connie Ends in Anti-Climax
Fiction Leads to Anti-Climax
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 14-15 September 2013; (p. 32-33) The Age , 14 September 2013; The Canberra Times , 14 September 2013;
— Review of I Take You 2013 single work novel -
Connie Stripped Bare for Today
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 27-28 July 2013; (p. 22-23)
— Review of I Take You 2013 single work novel -
[Untitled] (from I Take You)
2013
single work
extract
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 29 June 2013; (p. 7) -
Let's Write About Sex
2013
single work
column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 29 June 2013; (p. 6) -
Well Read
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 22 June 2013; (p. 28)
— Review of I Take You 2013 single work novel
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Well Read
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 22 June 2013; (p. 28)
— Review of I Take You 2013 single work novel -
Connie Stripped Bare for Today
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 27-28 July 2013; (p. 22-23)
— Review of I Take You 2013 single work novel -
Taking Liberties with Mel and Connie Ends in Anti-Climax
Fiction Leads to Anti-Climax
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 14-15 September 2013; (p. 32-33) The Age , 14 September 2013; The Canberra Times , 14 September 2013;
— Review of I Take You 2013 single work novel -
Try a Little Tenderness
2013
single work
column
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 15-16 June 2013; (p. 6-7) 'After Fifty Shades of Grey, how can a novelist refresh the language of love? Nikki Gemmell took up the challenge by updating DH Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover. -
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I Take You
London
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Fourth Estate
,
2013
5974841
2013
single work
novel
'Under her Chanel suit and designer lingerie, Connie Carven is no longer the typical banker′s wife. Since Cliff′s dreadful skiing accident Connie has become a willing submissive to her husband′s every desire.
While at first she enjoys a perverse sense of freedom within the ever-tightening bonds of her marriage, this dark and seductive passion consumes her entirely. She finds herself surrendering to an act that will forever remind her that she belongs to her husband alone - to be unlocked only by him, whenever he pleases.
But it is this that awakens Connie from her slumber. In the communal garden of her Notting Hill home, she meets Mel and discovers the thrill of true intimacy.
As the author of the bestselling phenomenon The Bride Stripped Bare and the exquisite With My Body, Nikki Gemmell brought erotic writing into the 21st century; she now looks back to Lady Chatterley′s Lover for inspiration. D.H. Lawrence′s celebrated tale of desire is retold for today and the deliciously provocative I Take You is a modern love story, both earthily passionate and wickedly tantalising.' (Publisher's blurb)
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Let's Write About Sex
2013
single work
column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 29 June 2013; (p. 6) -
[Untitled] (from I Take You)
2013
single work
extract
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 29 June 2013; (p. 7)
- Notting Hill, Murrumbeena - Oakleigh - Springvale area, Melbourne South East, Melbourne, Victoria,