Lucy-Anne Holmes – författare

Is Gracie in love for the very first time?You know that bit in The X Factor, when the singer tells everyone about the rocky road they travelled to pursue their dream? Well, that''s Gracie Flowers'' story.Gracie is very focused for a woman of almost twenty-six. Her favourite book is ''The 5-Year Plan: Making the Most of Your Life''. And her five-year plan is going very well. That is, until she is usurped from her big promotion by a handsome, posh idiot; she is dumped by her boyfriend; and discovers her loopy mother is facing bankruptcy.Hormones awry and ice cream over-ordered, a dream Gracie thought she''d buried ten years ago starts to resurface. A dream that reminds her of the girl she used to be and everything she wanted to become.

*Winner of the Romantic Comedy Novel of the Year RNA Award 2015*''My love story may not be the sort you read about in books or see in films . . . Love stories have glorious highs and ghastly lows. But when it comes to my own life, I''d have to say, you can keep your fabulous highs and I''ll happily steer clear of the terrible lows.''After a rocky start in life, Jenny Taylor, 27, star receptionist at the local doctors surgery, has things all worked out thanks to a list of ten daily things she must do to keep the blues at bay. But her life is turned upside down when she meets aspiring musician Joe King. And reliable boyfriend Matt proposes. And then her mum leaves her dad and moves into Jenny''s flat determined to ''bond''.Hilarious, honest and heartbreaking, Just a Girl, Standing in Front of a Boy is an edgy modern love story that will make you look at your own love story in a whole new way. Lucy-Anne Holmes is the bestselling author of 50 Ways to Find a Lover.

''A brilliant testament to those reclaiming their sexual power'' - RUBY RARE''Searingly honest ... A beautiful and important work'' - VANITY FAIR''This is a book that really should be pressed into the hands of a generation of young men who have learnt everything they wanted to know about sex but were afraid to ask from porn ... Holmes has done an admirable job'' SUNDAY TIMES''An important read for any young women starting out on their sexual life'' SUNDAY INDEPENDENTWITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY CHRISSIE HYNDE, JENNY ECLAIR AND MANY OTHERSWhat goes through a woman''s head while she''s having sex?Women on Top of the World is a collection of 51 first person testimonies by 51 women from around the globe, from all ages and from all walks of life. Searingly honest, they reveal their innermost thoughts and feelings during sex to writer Lucy-Anne Holmes. The result is an incredible compendium of true disclosures that are funny and sad, shocking and tender.Every experience is different, unique and fascinating. From 19-year-old Melodie in the UK to 32 year-old Wambui from Kenya and 74-year-old Lucy in New Zealand, we as readers are led down as many paths as there are ways to have sex. There are heterosexual women, gay women, bisexual women, queer women, monogamous women, polyamorous women, those who identify as non-binary and transgender women. There is beautiful sex, bored sex, auto-sexuality, crazy sex, tantric sex, sad sex and sex that is experienced as colours and melted toffee. A range of hugely talented, cutting-edge artists from all over the world - both male and female - have given their visual interpretations with rich and remarkable illustrations that convey the range of emotions contained within these intimate revelations.The result is a stunning, transportive book that will help quench the obvious thirst for narratives for women by women about their journeys of sexual self-discovery.

''A genius writer'' FABULOUS MAGAZINE· Explore your sensuality· Discover your inner power· Reclaim your sexuality with this gentle and mind-opening journal by sexual priestess and activist Lucy-Anne Holmes.When Lucy-Anne Holmes was in her mid-thirties, she had an epiphany about sex: she realised that she hadn''t even skimmed the surface of how fulfilling it could be. So, she took herself on a sexual odyssey. Ten years on, after countless explorations, sex festivals and workshops, she was initiated as a sacred sexual priestess. She now shares everything she has learned about how liberating and empowering sexual self-knowledge can be.Guided by Lucy, on each day of the 28 days you''ll be invited to read, to write and to do something around the following themes: Your Love, Your Body, Your Sex, Your Intimacy, Your Desire, Your Pleasure, Your Power, Your Playfulness, Your Surrender, Your Sacredness, Your Vision.This book features a host of activities to discover and play, including: activation mediations, touch practises, sex magic, self-pleasure experiments, sex audits, games to play with friends or lovers, plus opportunities to get creative and express your sexual self through various artforms, and much more.Consider this your own personal pleasure school. Prepare to be wowed and enlightened, inspired and excited as you acquaint yourself with the glorious uniqueness of your sexuality.Praise for Women on Top of the World''Searingly honest ... A beautiful and important work'' VANITY FAIR''Holmes has done an admirable job'' SUNDAY TIMES''The female gaze at its purest... An important read'' SUNDAY INDEPENDENT Praise for Don''t Hold My Head Down''Absolutely essential . . . So funny, hopeful, truthful and needed'' Caitlin Moran''A must-read. . . will make you laugh yourself silly'' Laura Bates''I can''t express how much I loved this book. And how evangelical I feel about it. I want to rush out and buy copies for every woman, and actually every man, I know'' Caroline Criado-Perez

Seksimuistelmat yhden naisen halusta löytää todellista nautintoa

Älä paina päätäni alas on toisenlainen kasvutarina, yhden naisen hillitön, valaiseva ja mitään kaihtamaton ristiretki paremman seksielämän saavuttamiseksi.

Internetpornon kyllästämä Lucy-Anne tajuaa kolmikymppisenä olevansa noviisi seksissä. Hänellä ei ole rohkeutta pyytää miehiltä sitä, mitä hän haluaa – eikä hän oikeastaan edes tiedä mitä se olisi. Erilaiset oppaat, ohjeet ja workshopit tuntuvat keskittyvän miehen näkökulmaan naisen nautinnon sijaan. Niinpä Lucy-Anne kirjoittaa seksin toivelistansa ja aloittaa matkan hitaan seksin, erilaisten orgasmien, seksijuhlien ja BDSM:n kautta omanlaisen nautinnon löytämiseen. Älä paina päätäni alas on suorapuheinen, noloissakin kohdissa rehellinen, hauska ja voimauttava tositarina siitä, miksi seksielämä kannattaa ottaa omiin käsiinsä. ”Luoja, miten tarvitsemme tätä kirjaa.” – Caroline Criado Perez, Näkymättömien naisten kirjoittaja

Lucy-Anne Holmes on brittiläinen kirjailija, näyttelijä ja kampanjoija. Hänet tunnetaan parhaiten kampanjastaan ”No More Page 3”, joka lopetti yläosattomien mallien kuvien julkaisemisen tabloidilehdissä Iso-Britanniassa. BBC valitsi Holmesin tästä syystä 100 naisen listalleen vuonna 2014.