My book ‘The Toyboy Diaries’ was recently reviewed in The Evening Standard. I was very flattered as I’m sure the Standard has many book choices for its Life & Culture pages and it’s a huge accolade that they chose mine.
HOWEVER, Nirpal Dhaliwal who wrote the piece, has his own agenda, being the dastardly, dumped, ex-husband of Liz Jones who has documented their disastrous marriage over the past few years in The Mail on Sunday, trashing him and his abysmal behaviour on a weekly basis.
He had clearly not read ‘The Toyboy Diaries’ properly nor researched its provenance as glaring inconsistencies and inaccuracies littered ever line of his rambling review.
In order to set the record straight, my memoir was published first and foremost as a book and never began life as a blog. I can cope with being called a ‘lovably whorish great-aunt’ (quite funny, really!) but he peppered his prose with the smuttiest quotes he could find, all out of context and chronology.
My sex life has never been a ‘constant humiliating submission’ – why would I want to live like that? It has been, and still is, a gloriously joyful embrace of hedonism and his comment that all my boyfriends ‘vanished’ on me is guff as I am still in touch with most of them.(I’m sticking my tongue out at you right now, Nirpal!)
He also comments that I write ‘without any inward contemplation’. Everyone who's read ‘The Toyboy Diaries’ appreciates the fact that each romantic episode is related with great depth of feeling and introspection, my emotions honestly described, my soul sensitively bared. Women have derived strength and inspiration from reading it and men admire my openness and the fact that they can learn how to adjust their behaviour wherever necessary to get the best out of their relationships!
Both sexes can relate to the humour, the highs and the lows, and acknowledge with a sympathetic nod the vagaries which dog all single people in their pursuit of love.
Do try and get a life, Nirpal – your review makes you sound like the sad and embittered one…not me!
Oooh! I feel better now...!
About Me
- Wendy Salisbury
- London, United Kingdom
- I was born in London to a Russian mother and Argentinian father. Educated at the French Lycee, I'd learned how to flirt in four languages by the time I was 15. I lived in Spain from age 18 to 20 documenting the life story of El Cordobes, the world-famous bullfighter, who helped himself to my virginity one hot and sultry Cordovan night... At 21, returned to the UK, I got married, had a darling daughter, then divorced; two years later, I married again, had another darling daughter, and divorced again. At 42 my life really kicked off with my first foray into the wonderful world of younger men documented in my nefarious adventures 'The Toyboy Diaries' Volumes 1 and 2 now translated into several languages. My first novel, 'Blood on the Sand' is out now in Spanish, and available in English on Amazon Kindle. My lifestyle guide 'NOW! The New Older Woman' awaits publication as does my 2nd novel 'Too Late to Go Home'. I am the very proud grandmother to 5 darling grandchildren.
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