When a wannabe sci-fi author receives his 1000th rejection letter, how can he possibly recover? Easily, by getting drunk and writing a best-selling sex novel.
Middle-aged clerk, Reuben Rudge, has been writing sci-fi novels for years, and getting nowhere. His latest rejection letter is the last straw, so he gets drunk watches a late night TV documentary about BDSM. In the morning he wakes up naked on the hall floor, with a new manuscript to post.
A few weeks later he receives a letter addressed to Ms Raspberry Caine, inviting her to contract talks with a publisher for the adult novel 'Disciplinary Attraction'. After finding the manuscript on his laptop Rudge is shocked by its content, and even more so when he realises that he's the author.
Fearing a lack of credibility he persuades young Becky, a complete stranger at his bus stop, to pretend to be Ms Raspberry Caine at the meeting with the publisher.
The book soon becomes a bestseller, and Rudge lies to his wife about a new office job he has in London. He employs Becky full-time as Raspberry Caine, and she has to bluff her way through the book launch and a succession of functions attended by celebrities, VIPs and the βarty-fartyβ glitterati.
The publisher puts pressure on Rudge to write the sequel, but he can't come up with any ideas. Becky steps in to assist by writing about some of the kinky exploits enjoyed her famous new friends, but forgets to change their real names.
Will a scandal unfold? Does Mrs Rudge discover her husband's secret life?
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