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Sugar Daddy Diaries: When a Fantasy Became an Obsession
Helen Croydon

Sugar Daddy Diaries: When a Fantasy Became an Obsession

Frustrated with her stalled career as a broadcast journalist and uninspired by dating naive and needy guys her own age, Helen Croydon joins a website to seek an older man. She only expects it to be a few fun dates in some fancy bars, but finds herself propelled into a world of Prada shopping trips, fine dining, first-class travel and fascinating, powerful men.

But underneath the glamour, Helen discovers a secret world of men who are prepared to pay for girlfriends – men so busy they consider cash and gifts a surer way of maintaining a relationship than emotional investment.

When some of her dates allude to monthly allowances in exchange for her company, she’s shocked. But for how long can she keep up her moral resistance to being paid for something she is doing thrillingly for free?

Helen’s soul-searching dating adventures take her to New York, Malaysia, highbrow sex parties, ski trips in Colorado and most of London’s finest hotels.

My Sugar Daddy Diaries is a confessional true story that questions modern ideals about relationships, examines the attraction of power and asks if money can ever be the currency of love.

Book Details:

  • Author: Helen Croydon
  • Published Year: 2011
  • Rights Sold
    • UK: Mainstream
Helen Croydon

Helen Croydon

  Helen Croydon is an author, ghostwriter, writing coach and former journalist.   Her specialism is memoir and non-fiction, having written two high-profile memoirs of her own. Her first was a dating memoir, Sugar Daddy Diaries: When a Fantasy Became an Obsession (Mainstream Publishing), which made the WHSmith bestseller list in 2011. Her third book was another memoir, about discovering endurance sport. This Girl Ran: Tales of a Party Girl Turned Triathlete (Summersdale) was longlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year award in 2018. Her other titles include Screw the...
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Book Reviews

  • "   A fascinating insight into Helen's world of highbrow sex parties,international globetrotting and high-powered, successful men (Book of theWeek. 3rd March)"
    Cosmo
  • "Searingly honest ... A fast-paced trip into aworld most of us will never get to access."
    News of the World
  • " [Helen’s] juicy adventures will keep you hooked."
    Closer
  • " An enlightening, exceptionally well-writtenconfessional that makes us question our preconceptions about relationships."
    Manchester Evening Standard
  • "A fascinating read."
    Lorraine Kelly
  • "A riveting read that catapults you from Primark to Prada in a few short pages.... The author slips in intriguing insights into the female psyche: power as an aphrodisiac; the traditional relationship and how it fits with a modern girl’s life. "
    The Erotic Review
  • "Refreshingly open, truthful and deals with the trials and tribulations of social stigma, online dating, and what, as a woman, ‘we should want’.”"
    Lost in the City Blog