Author:Laura D,Adriana Hunter
Laura is a bright and ambitious language student at a top university in France. She is also broke. Surfing the internet one evening, she stumbles across an adult website that might just hold the answer to her financial problems - pages of personal ads offering money in exchange for 'female company'. On impulse she responds to one of them . . . and then another and another. When a man called Joe contacts her, prepared to pay €150 for an hour-long meeting, she nervously agrees to his request.
Joe will be the first of many clients - men of all ages with urgent needs. And Laura will surprise even herself as she submits to their often bizarre demands in hotel rooms and apartments. But the pressures of leading a double life as student and call girl, and the increasing possessiveness of Joe soon begin to take their toll.
In her first year at university, 19-year-old Laura is set to learn more about men, money, sex and herself than she could ever have imagined.
An appalling, fascinating story, expertly told
—— Sunday TimesOne of the books of the year
—— GlamourIt blazes with truth and anger - a true story of survival and achievement against the odds
—— Sunday TelegraphExtraordinary - shocking and moving
—— Woman & HomeHorrifying but compelling
—— CosmopolitanA disturbing yet compelling read
—— Best MagazineCompelling and painful memoir ... Her extraordinary tale manages to be both horrifying and yet ultimately uplifting
—— Sainsbury's MagazineA harrowing but compelling account of the way her mother stole her childhood
—— Irish TimesMy heart beat too fast from start to finish ... totally unforgettable
—— Andrea Ashworth, bestselling author of Once in a House on FireOne wishes this book could get into the hands of all the suffering children who need it
—— Washington PostThis story of unfathomable child abuse is told with remarkable wit, compassion, and courage
—— Augusten Burroughs, author of Running with ScissorsHighly articulate … Her memories are real, not recovered
—— The Times