Foreign Affairs
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ISBN: 1-60601-234-7
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ISBN:9781606014165
What happens when a book of sexy romantic stories is hauled before Priscilla and her committee of censors? Will she be able to pin down the author Trehearne and get his book banned? The trouble is – the stories are too exciting. Everyone wants to hear more of Trehearne and his disreputable past.
He comes from a world outside her experience and she is afraid for her future...
Foreign Affairs was born in the stupidest of circumstances. A good while ago I was wrestling with the problem of selling my first book - a re-telling of the classic story Treasure Island. Any new novelist will sympathise with my struggle to find an agent (a race of people who have still not impressed me after all this time). I won't go into the details, but one of them stopped me cold by saying the language in my book was a little difficult for children.
Children? What was he talking about? My book was for adults; I like reading books like that, why couldn't he?
There and then I resolved that no-one would ever mistake my second book for a kid's story, and sat down to write the first tale of Foreign Affairs.
Believe it or not, I had never written a sexy story before. I quickly found that it was great fun and very liberating. It was like making love to whoever I wanted, whenever I wanted and in any exotic location I cared to dream up. It was the most fun I had ever had by myself, and it still is.
So off I went, starting in an Australian outback mining town and then taking on the world. It was great!
And as with the exotic locations, so with the exotic sex. I am not going detail the research undertaken - my husband has quite enough leg-pulling to put up with as it is. (He is happy enough to admit to supplying the technical backgrounds such as the oil-rigs, but he denies everything
“Trehearne, please tell the Board how much of this book is autobiographical.”
Trehearne thought for a moment before addressing the Board. “Madam Chairperson, the Investigator has asked me a serious question that I am not able to answer. Some of this book I know to be true. Some I heard about second-hand, and some is pure imagination. But all through it, there are real people involved – admittedly under other names. As a gentleman, I cannot encourage any speculation that might identify the real characters without their permission.”
Valerie's jaw dropped. “You mean, some of this is true?”
“Yes. Approximately three-quarters, I would say.”
“You mean people actually do these things?”
“Of course. Why do you ask?”
So, dear reader, if you really want to know whether all these interesting things actually happened or even who they happened to, you'll just have to read the book and judge for yourself...
John, Sonya and Pat live in the outback mining town at the top right of the picture
Well, I could say it's all true to life, but that's a bit of a cop out. Instead I'll quote a passage from the story itself which seems to sum things up:
else.) My friends know I write, of course, and they really, really want the answer to just one question: how much of this story is true?
Diyarbakir in Eastern Turkey, where Mark and Tulin lived and loved.
The beach on Mykonos where Peter and Ingrid made love in public.
Reader's Reviews
Joshrx7, Australia
I could not keep my eyes off the book. It is mind-blowing. The author takes you through such an exciting journey of sex, passion, hidden fantasies and much more. Each chapter is a different erotic story that will trigger your mind and will make you want to read more and more. Honestly it is hard to put down. And like me, you may find more than one of your erotic fantasies coming true.
JoJo Jinx
I just finished reading Jacqueline's book, Foreign Affairs. This novel is fantastic, very hot and very literate. It is a veritable travelogue of sex as the title indicates. It revolves around a collection of short stories placed in exotic locations by an English writer, John Trehearne. They are being read at a censorship review proceeding and narrative between the stories develops John's character and his romantic opposite, Priscilla. Although, like most romances, the end of the novel is predictable the short stories often have trick endings with implied meanings keeping everything spicy. Several characters appear in more than one story and Trehearne admits that they are somewhat autobiographical. This links the stories right into the big picture, one of the characters even sent a letter addressing the censorship proceedings. Because of this related story-within-a-story technique, Foreign Affairs provides a richness of thought not often found in spicy romances. It's a red hot read and a novel that will stick in the back of your mind.
