The Secret Lives of Emma Trilogy
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Writing under the pseudonym, Natasha Walker, John Purcell's debut novel The Secret Lives of Emma: Beginnings reached the top ten on the Australian fiction charts and John was the tenth highest selling Australian novelist and third highest selling Australian debut author in 2012.
The Secret Lives of Emma trilogy went on to sell 50,000+ copies in Australia alone and was translated into French, Polish and Korean. John Purcell: I wanted to write an erotic novel which placed a woman firmly in the driver’s seat. Emma is confident, intelligent, fiercely independent and self-aware. She has lead a life pursuing knowledge, love, sex and the unexpected. For Emma, the most dangerous, the most exciting, the most erotic places are the most familiar – the spaces where she lives, where she works, amongst people she knows, under watchful eyes of her friends, her neighbours. It is here she finds herself bound and gagged by convention, fearing exposure, ridicule and condemnation. Everywhere she looks there are things she wants but mustn’t have. Breaking the rules is harder than it would seem. But, for Emma, the bird in the hand is not enough; she wants the two in the woods as well. |
Reviews
Author Kylie Ladd on The Secret Lives of Emma: Beginnings - Natasha Walker’s debut novel is eloquent, measured and articulate, its tone – in surely a first for erotica – both wry and playful. More to the point, it’s dirty enough that Walker adopted a pseudonym to write the book, and readers may feel in need of a shower after finishing it, cold or otherwise.
Bestselling author Rachael Johns on The Secret Lives of Emma: Beginnings - I can’t compare The Secret Lives of Emma to other books of this genre, but I can say that I thoroughly enjoyed it and will be ordering buying books two and three ASAP! It’s an easy but clever read and I’m desperate to know what happens next in the life of naughty Emma.
Simone on Goodreads: A breath of fresh air in a genre that is overloaded with poorly written stories.
Jay on Goodreads: OMG!! shocking, but hot & sexy scenes with the young & innocent next door neighbour. Can't wait to read more!
Sarah on The Secret Lives of Emma: Unmasked: Fantastic ending, I just felt so used & spent by the time the whole ordeal of the Party on David's yacht was over. My god that was hot & erotic, cold showers all round.
Bestselling author Rachael Johns on The Secret Lives of Emma: Beginnings - I can’t compare The Secret Lives of Emma to other books of this genre, but I can say that I thoroughly enjoyed it and will be ordering buying books two and three ASAP! It’s an easy but clever read and I’m desperate to know what happens next in the life of naughty Emma.
Simone on Goodreads: A breath of fresh air in a genre that is overloaded with poorly written stories.
Jay on Goodreads: OMG!! shocking, but hot & sexy scenes with the young & innocent next door neighbour. Can't wait to read more!
Sarah on The Secret Lives of Emma: Unmasked: Fantastic ending, I just felt so used & spent by the time the whole ordeal of the Party on David's yacht was over. My god that was hot & erotic, cold showers all round.
