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Dear Mr Andrews

Lotte Latham

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English
Guts Publishing
18 January 2023
"A millennial's journey through the precarious landscape of sugar dating in the 21st century. Latham embodies the modern-day hedonist, a frank and daring narrator inviting us to experience a secret world of debauchery and excess. She guides us through sugar dates, from kinky dinners to hotel rooms, while embarking on her personal journey of self-discovery and the unwavering realisation of ""how much loneliness is in the world.""

""In an absolute act of submission this playful, hilarious, candid book dares to lay things bare for our entertainment. Highly recommended."" - Susanna Kleeman, author of Twice

""Written in swift, clear-eyed prose, Latham's wry, insightful narrator is an erotic ethnographer who has managed to convince this late-born Boomer that if you can't be honest, at least be true. An important distinction, one that harkens back to de Sade and returns to us generationally through writers like Colette, Anaïs Nin, Angela Carter and Tamara Faith Berger. I would respectfully add Lotte Latham to that list. Dear Mr Andrews is a remarkable debut."" - Michael Turner, author of The Pornographer's Poem

""Dear Mr Andrews has everything I want from a memoir. Sugar babies, daddies, johns... A natural successor to Lynne Tillman and Kathy Acker. Latham's writing is as sexy as it is stylish."" Barry Pierce, writer and critic

In Lotte's own words:

""I've long since felt there's strength in weakness. Over the past six or seven years I've been in and out of sex work, leading a normal life and a smutty one in parallel. I began journaling about some of my experiences: some were funny, some were liberating, some were challenging and often not for the reasons people might project them to be. During this time I met Mr Andrews who is effectively a John who didn't pay, purely bad business on my part. I felt lightly exploited, or at least confused at how I'd ended up giving out sexual favours, on weekdays, to married men for free. So, I began to tell him about my life. Almost every day I message him quite candidly about the ins and outs of escorting, of dating, of dancing, of my day job. And in doing so, I'd go as far to say we have become fetid pen pals."""

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Imprint:   Guts Publishing
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 203mm,  Width: 127mm,  Spine: 13mm
Weight:   245g
ISBN:   9781838471965
ISBN 10:   1838471960
Pages:   222
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Reviews for Dear Mr Andrews

"""In an absolute act of submission this playful, hilarious, candid book dares to lay things bare for our entertainment. Highly recommended."" - Susanna Kleeman, author of Twice ""Written in swift, clear-eyed prose, Latham's wry, insightful narrator is an erotic ethnographer who has managed to convince this late-born Boomer that if you can't be honest, at least be true. An important distinction, one that harkens back to de Sade and returns to us generationally through writers like Colette, Anaïs Nin, Angela Carter and Tamara Faith Berger. I would respectfully add Lotte Latham to that list. Dear Mr Andrews is a remarkable debut."" - Michael Turner, author of The Pornographer's Poem ""Dear Mr Andrews has everything I want from a memoir. Sugar babies, daddies, johns... A natural successor to Lynne Tillman and Kathy Acker. Latham's writing is as sexy as it is stylish."" - Barry Pierce, writer and critic ""She'll show you 'how much loneliness there is in the world, ' among so many life lessons. This book is Lotte's clarion call for compassion. Go ahead, readers, take a deep peek. What's not to love about Dear Mr Andrews? Absolutely fucking nothing. Guts Publishing hits another one out of the cricket field. This book is a victory for all women."" - Karla Linn Merrifield, author of My Body the Guitar, 2021 National Book Award Nominee ""Filthy and fascinating - a frank, complex, thoughtful memoir, told in a (mostly) one-sided epistolary format. Dear Mr Andrews offers a unique window into the world of sugar dating. It's a visceral and viscerally enjoyable read - honest, insightful, vital, dirty and sublime."" - Kristan X, author of Lascivity ""A titillating, absurdist and dangerous screed on sex work, which, in her own words, is what that keeps Latham sane. I will add: stone cold lucid. Latham divulges the truth of female recklessness with her real treat of a mind. Dear Mr. Andrews is sweet and bitter and perfectly baked, cutting the lines between sugar babying, escorting and civilian work in a turbulent loop of righteousness."" - Tamara Faith Berger, author of Maidenhead, The Believer Book Award 2012 ""A brutally honest candy trip dedicated to Lotte's muse, the Daddy that got away. Each chapter unwraps relatable confessions about the nuanced motivations behind dating, love, work, and sex and where they stick together under capitalism and misogyny. Lotte's voice is sweet, perverse and deeply self-aware as she navigates the economics of defiance and goes at her own cavities with sharp picks."" - Sadie Lune, co-author of As You Wish, My Lady"


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