The Not So Invisible Woman

Oct 7, 2024 7:19 AM

Author:Suzanne Portnoy

Middle-aged single mother and entertainment publicist Suzanne Portnoy leads a double life. Monday to Friday, she's a professional executive devoted to her two adolescent boys. But at weekends she spends her kid-free hours having sex, with a different man each time. Or multiple men.

Picking up where her first book, The Butcher, the Baker, the Candlestick Maker: An Erotic Memoir, left off, this memoir finds Suzanne both confronting the consequences, and enjoying the fruits, of her notoriety as the bestselling author of an erotic memoir. From a coked-up rock star to an uptight millionaire, to a hunky stripper, Suzanne attracts plenty of men wherever she goes, particularly once they learn her identity.

But just when Suzanne grows reconciled to the possibility of never settling down, she meets a man who wants to be more than one of her 'friends.' While debating whether to unload her 'portfolio' of men for the potential one true lover, this most unconventional woman ponders the most conventional question: has she found the fabled Mr Right or will he prove to be just another in a long string of Mr Wrongs?

Reviews

I can't remember when a book made me more angry. Lawrence's book should be compulsory reading . . . nothing is what it says on the packet

—— Allison Pearson, on Not on the Label , Evening Standard

Challenges each and every one of us to think again about what we eat. It's almost like uncovering a secret state within the state

—— Andrew Marr, BBC Radio 4's , Start the Week

I can't remember when a book made me more angry. Lawrence's book should be compulsory reading

—— Allison Pearson, on Not on the Label , Evening Standard

Gee tells the story of child stardom from the other side: waiting outside stage doors on cold winter nights; reading Harry Potter aloud on the train; complying with all the regulations concerning child actors; and worrying about what impression a young girl appearing in The Sound of Music will get about Nazism. It's an interesting view of the theatre from the perspective of domestic practicalities and parental fears, and along the way there are tantrums, bouts of self-importance and even a brief meeting with Julie Andrews.

—— Glasgow Herald

A balanced and amiable guide ... contains a great deal of information you couldn't know unless you had lived this life yourself

—— Sunday Tribune

This is an engaging and revealing read for anyone who loves the theatre

—— Guardian

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