The Secret Lives of Emma by Natasha Walker

But, for Emma, the bird in the hand is not enough she wants the two in the woods as well.Īuthor 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. Breaking the rules is harder than it would seem. Everywhere she looks there are things she wants but mustn’t have. It is here she finds herself bound and gagged by convention, fearing exposure, ridicule and condemnation. She has lead a life pursuing knowledge, love, sex and the unexpected.įor 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. Emma is confident, intelligent, fiercely independent and self-aware. John Purcell: I wanted to write an erotic novel which placed a woman firmly in the driver’s seat. The Secret Lives of Emma trilogy went on to sell 50,000+ copies in Australia alone and was translated into French, Polish and Korean. 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 by Natasha Walker