Susan Johnson is a writer in her prime, and her most enduring love affair is with language itself. 'Confronting the inevitable desiccation of her ageing body, a woman reflects on her life as an erotic adventurer, and through these vivid stories of the flesh, a mind and a soul emerge in full. Lyrical and exquisite, MY HUNDRED LOVERS captures the sheer wonder of life, desire and love. By turns humorous, sharp, haunting and wise, this is an original and exhilarating novel from one of Australia's premier writers. After the love, hatred and despair are done with, the great and trivial acts of her bodily life reveal an imperfect, yet whole self. Susan Johnson is a writer in her prime, and her most enduring love affair is with language itself. Synopsis Aphrodite’s Breath is a strikingly original, funny and forensic examination of love and finding home, amid the stories of the people, olives and wonders of the Greek island of Kythera, which according to some versions of the myth is the birthplace of Aphrodite.

A woman, on the eve of her fiftieth birthday, reflects on one hundred moments from a lifetime's sensual adventures. Confronting the inevitable desiccation of her ageing body, a woman reflects on her life as an erotic adventurer, and through these vivid stories of the flesh, a mind and a soul emerge in full. There was a man in my bed and I did not know how he got there. ISBN 978-2-6 My Hundred Lovers, Allen & Unwin, 2012. There was a cry, far off, almost out of earshot. Susan Johnson (born 1956) is an Australian author of literary fiction, memoir, short stories. The curtains were cream and blew softly in the wind. That afternoon in the small bedroom the light was blue. A woman on the eve of her fiftieth birthday reflects on her life in the extraordinary, beautiful and shocking new novel from one of Australia's premier novelists.

My Hundred Lovers by Susan Johnson