Nikki Gemmell – författare

From internationally bestselling author Nikki Gemmell comes a tantalizing story of love within marriage—and alongside it.

Under her Chanel suit and designer lingerie, Connie Carven is no longer the typical banker''s wife. When Cliff''s horrible skiing accident shifts the balance of their relationship, Connie becomes a willing submissive to her husband''s every desire. Cliff is eager to explore new, and troubling, avenues of passion. Connie, ever the dutiful wife, follows wherever he leads. While at first she enjoys a perverse sense of freedom within the ever-tightening bonds of her marriage, Cliff''s dark desires soon consume her entirely. She finds herself surrendering to an act that will forever remind her that she belongs to her husband alone—to be unlocked only by him, whenever he pleases.

But it is also this act that awakens Connie from the numbness that has taken over her life. And when she encounters someone new in the communal garden of her Notting Hill home, she discovers the thrill of true intimacy . . . and the price of risking everything for it.

The author of the bestselling phenomenon The Bride Stripped Bare and the exquisite With My Body, Nikki Gemmell brings erotic writing into the twenty-first century. In I Take You she looks to the classic Lady Chatterley''s Lover for inspiration, reimagining D. H. Lawrence''s celebrated tale as a brutally honest and deeply sensual modern love story.

Internationally bestselling author Nikki Gemmell writes on the power of quiet in today''s shouty world. Quiet comes as a shock in these troubled times. Quietism means ''devotional contemplation and abandonment of the will ... a calm acceptance of things as they are''. Gemmell makes the case for why quiet is steadily gaining ground in this noisy age: Why we need it now more than ever. How to glean quiet, hold on to it, and work within it.

''Every woman on Earth should read it'' Caroline Overington, Weekend AustralianHaving lived through the humiliation and bewildering complexity of heartbreak in her twenties, Nikki Gemmell eventually resurfaced, reclaimed space for herself and found her voice. Decades later she has written a deeply personal, profoundly intimate reflection on love and female creativity, and what happens when the two collide in a man''s world.Dissolve is a conversation. A conversation with the young women of Gemmell''s teenage daughter''s generation, and of course with men.''Reading this memoir is like therapy for the soul'' ArtsHub''one of the most enriching, yet debilitating reads I''ve experienced... tremendous, moving writing'' Jessie Tu, Women''s Agenda''Nikki Gemmell wrote this book for me, and I suspect there will be many women who feel the same way... Each page is imbued with startling self-awareness and profound wisdom... Vulnerable, honest and raw'' Better Reading