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 Author

Helen-croydon Helen Croydon is an author, journalist and broadcaster specialising in topics surrounding modern relationships, health and woman’s issues. She is author of Sugar Daddy Diaries, a confessional memoir which explores the attraction of power and questions modern models of relationships. (Mainstream Publishing, March 2011) and 100 Lessons on Sex, part of a new eBook series of 100 Lessons in 100 Words or Less (Visual Aid Publishing). She writes regularly for The Times, Sunday Times, The Telegraph, The Guardian, The Independent, The Daily Mail, and various magazines. She is a blogger ...
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Book Reviews

  • Cosmo
    "   A fascinating insight into Helen's world of highbrow sex parties,international globetrotting and high-powered, successful men (Book of theWeek. 3rd March)"
  • News of the World
    "Searingly honest ... A fast-paced trip into aworld most of us will never get to access."
  • Closer
    " [Helen’s] juicy adventures will keep you hooked."
  • Manchester Evening Standard
    " An enlightening, exceptionally well-writtenconfessional that makes us question our preconceptions about relationships."