CONFESSIONS OF A LAPDANCER
Confessions of a Lapdancer
Geri Carson
UK rights: HarperCollins (Avon)
German rights: Goldmann Verlag
US rights: Working Partners Ltd
All other rights available
At the end of a hardcore evening out celebrating a major coup for their City investment banking team, obnoxious and arrogant new recruit Luke invites all the boys to a pole dancing club called The Pearl. Not wanting to be cut out, Geri Carson insists she come along too – even though she despises such places on principle. Luke says fine, she can keep his piece of totty company - it turns out that Luke is sleeping with Tania, Geri’s PA. The 20-year-old blonde, whom Geri had loathed on sight, was hired when she was away working in New York for a few weeks.
In the club, the boys get a little raucous at the prospect of getting their bonuses the next day and Luke requests a personal lap dance. Appalled, Geri excuses herself and heads to the bar but when challenged by the ‘Brothers’ she throws caution to the wind and performs a pole dance herself, using her athletic body in a way that leaves her colleagues reeling – especially Ryan, her occasional lover. Back at his place she drives him even more wild….
In the office the following morning, each member of the team is called into the office to learn what their bonuses are. And, of course, by lunchtime everyone knows what everyone else has got. Geri is outraged – she got £20K while all the guys got £30K - including Luke, who has only been with the company two months whilst she’s been there two years.
Later that day Geri has to return to The Pearl to reclaim a bag she has left behind and she meets the owner, Declan, who half-jokingly says if she’s ever looking for a job, she could walk into one there. Pissed off, and needing the money to pay off her debts, Geri takes him up on his offer, making it clear that she will not be sleeping with any customers.
So begins a double life that takes Geri into the lap dancing world in all its glamour and excitement but also its desperation and grittiness. Together with her trainer, Jackie, and other dancers Suzie and Irena, Geri at first relishes her night job. A mysterious admirer adds to the thrill, eventually asking her out and giving her the sexual experiences that tame Ryan was so incapable of delivering.
Soon, Geri is progressing from performing a private lap dance for an attractive couple to being a voyeur in their own private dance. There are dalliances with a football star and tales of Vegas jets and even some S&M. And ultimately Geri discovers that she’s no longer playing by boys' rules when her dancing stops being about exhibiting power over men and becomes about trusting her own body and instincts.
Geri's last dance is with the charismatic owner of club who blindfolds her. Now she finally has relinquished all power. For a while she obeys his commands, but then subverts the fantasy by demanding he wear a blindfold too. And by the end, they are each trusting their bodies and abandoning any attempt at control.
Confessions of a Lapdancer was developed by Working Partners Ltd. Since 1995, Working Partners has created some of the most recognised series in children's fiction including Animal Ark, Heartland and, more recently, Rainbow Magic and Warriors. Rainbow Magic now has sales of five million copies in the UK and Commonwealth and translation rights have been licensed in seventeen territories. Animal Ark, now with its own Classics list in the UK, has sold over fifteen million copies worldwide.
In 2006 Working Partners Two was formed to develop book ideas and to establish a network of writers to emulate the children’s success in the arena of adult fiction. Geri Carson is a pen name.
