Diary of a Married Call Girl

by Tracy Quan

Book Overview

The witty, sexy sequel to Tracy Quan's bestselling 'Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl'.

Like everyone, Nancy finds that as life goes on, she has to adapt. She's learning to hone her respectable image as the wife of investment banker Matt, cooking fashionable meals and taking his shirts to the cleaners, while turning a few tricks on the side. Volume is down, but the sex is kinkier. And she finds herself pulled into the discreet subculture of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0007228627
• ISBN13: 9780007228621
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.0" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Fun read

Fun to read. Finished it in a few days and ordered her first book 'Manhattan' which I just started. Worth a few bucks and a few dollars.

Frisky and Fun -- Nancy Chan and the challenges of a double life

Nancy Chan is back, and this time she's juggling even more than before. Her day job -- as a high class call girl -- is kinkier than ever. Meanwhile, her nights, with new husband Matt, are filled with the prosaic pressures of married life -- like where to live, or whether or not to have a baby. Tracy explores Nancy's life and background to a far greater degree in this novel. There are vignettes about Nancy's life as a youngster in Canada, of her time in London, and even about her unorthodox family in Trinidad. Better still, Tracy describes lively escapades between Nancy and her clients. Nancy is both enthusiastic and ambivalent about the two big relationships in her life. Her relationship with her husband and her relationship with sex work. She's a character filled with humor and nuance. "Diary of a Married Call Girl" will intrigue anyone with a curiosity about the sex industry, life in Manhattan or the experience of leading a dual life. I recommend it highly for anyone looking for a frisky and fun read.

Fascinating

Tracy Quan has a gift for slipping subtle and touching scenes into a light, frothy plot. "Nancy Chan" has been fascinating ever since her debut in the pages of Salon, and she remains so as she negotiates the unexpected terrain of "straight" married life. You end up realizing that the secrets a hooker has to keep from her unsuspecting hubby are a lot like the issues in any marriage where the two people are trying to maintain some kind of independent life. Just more colorful and, occasionally, kinkier. (The scene where poor Nancy has to pretend to be a dominatrix - when one of her colleagues is a no-show - is a hilarious twist on a stereotype.)

the further fun adventures of nancy

essential reading for all who enjoyed the first nancy chan novel. licking my chops in anticipation of more volumes!

Naughty and Fun: A Great Read

Tracy Quan has scored big again. This sequel to her first Nancy Chan novel, "Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl," continues and adds depth to Nancy's ongoing saga as an elite New York call girl. Her life has gotten more complicated with her marriage to Matt, an upwardly mobile investment banker. Nancy has now entered the hidden world of the married call girl with a secret apartment and surreptitious "dates." Difficulties abound: as Nancy becomes more secretive, her best friend, Allison, becomes more outthere as a hooker/activist. And there's always her inquisitive sister-in-law, Elspeth,to be fended off. But the johns are still rich and adoring and seem to have gotten even kinkier. It's all there, sex and style, randiness and romance, leavened by Tracy Quan's unique humor but, at times, deepened by pensive moments as Nancy, janus-faced, contemplates past and future. This is a delightful novel to be read and savored.