Wednesday, February 03, 2010

SCARLET HEELS – 26 STORIES ABOUT SEX
Rachel McAlpine
CC Press - $29.95 - Publication date – 14 February 2010


What a subject! Such fun, I read these 26 often funny, sometimes serious, occasionally steamy stories over the holiday weekend and enjoyed them enormously. Twenty six women, young and old, in fact from teenage to 84 years, talk about moments when sex changed their lives by bringing about change, clarity or love.

It says much for McAlpine’s prose writing skills that she can make the voices sound so different from one another although in her ‘discreet thanks’ at the end of the book she does thank “anonymous friends who told me their stories about sex and let me use them”.

In a nice touch each story is separated by a love poem.

About the author.
McAlpine has an impressive bibliography including poetry, plays, short & long fiction and children's books. Link here for a full list.

Pic right shows some of her titles in 2008.


CC Press
P.O.Box 19 184,
Wellington. 6149.

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