The Bride Stripped Bare (novel)

This article is about the Nikki Gemmell novel. For other uses, seeThe Bride Stripped Bare.

The Bride Stripped Bareis a 2003novelwritten by the Australian writerNikki Gemmell,originally publishedanonymously.The title is borrowed from the paintingThe Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even(also known asThe Large Glass) byMarcel Duchamp.It went on to become the best-selling book by an Australian author in 2003.

In 2005, it was announced that Australian screenwriterAndrew Bovell,who penned the award-winning film drama,Lantana,was to adaptThe Bride Stripped Barefor the screen.

The book is written in the form of a diary by a young wife who has disappeared. In it, the author talks frankly about oral sex and love, and chronicles her relationship with a mysterious man she meets at a library group.

The author has said that she "loved the idea of writing a book that dived under the surface of a woman's life, a seemingly contentedly married woman, and explored her secret world-with ruthless honesty". The act of writing the work anonymously, she has described as "liberating".

A follow-up novel entitledWith My Bodywas published in Australia and the UK in October 2011 and was scheduled to be published in the United States in 2012. According to the publisher, it is a companion piece but not explicitly a sequel toThe Bride Stripped Bare.