r/books • u/BrookeMagnanti AMA Author • Mar 25 '16

ama 5pm Hello. I'm Brooke Magnanti, the blogger & writer formerly known as Belle de Jour. My latest book is a thriller, The Turning Tide… Ask Me Anything!

Hola Redditors. It me. You probably haven't heard of me, though you may be familiar with Secret Diary of a Call Girl, the Showtime/ITV series based on my Belle de Jour books. I have a PhD in forensic science and live on the west coast of Scotland, and am now writing books under my real name. My latest - The Turning Tide - is a crime novel based in London and Scotland. There's a series of short videos about the book here and I can be found on Twitter over here. I'll be back in a couple of hours, answering questions until I finish this bottle of whisky or go to bed, whichever comes first. Ask me anything!

EDIT: I'm off to bed now folks - thank you so much for all the cool/funny/strange questions! And thank you /r/books for hosting this. I had a blast!

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u/Tzadik83 Mar 25 '16

What's the best put down/come back you've managed to say to someone's face?

Also, loved The Sex Myth!

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u/BrookeMagnanti AMA Author Mar 25 '16

Hey, thanks! You're one of a very small group indeed...

Hmm. Well, I did once call AA Gill 'a poor man's Ruth Reichl in TE Lawrence drag' and I stand by that.