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How Was It for You?

The Lives and Loves of a Sex Worker

Eve Smith author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Pan Macmillan

Publishing:19th Jun '25

£10.99

This title is due to be published on 19th June, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

How Was It for You? cover

The author of How Was It for You? is a sex worker.
Let’s call her Eve.
Eve is someone’s daughter. Someone’s partner.

Eve has worked across the sex industry for twenty years: in a brothel, as an escort, in a strip club, online and as a dominatrix. In this candid memoir she reveals all: the good stuff, the bad, and the downright ugly too.

We’re with her poolside as she sips Champagne at a wealthy client’s Caribbean villa. We scurry with her from a gated mansion as a fun threesome gets out of hand. We watch from the public gallery as she is dragged in and out of court by the law. We perch at her side in a cell as she contemplates the true meaning of freedom. And we’re at the brothel when she meets Adam, a punter who turns out to be a keeper.

Honest, eye-opening, full of fury and frequently funny, How Was It for You? is a unique insight into what’s happening in society’s shadows and an unforgettable walk in someone else’s high heels.

'It is heartening to find humour and a glimmer of hope' - Jo Brand
'Unflinching . . . Everyone should read this book' - Emily Edwards, author of The Herd


Eve Smith is a pseudonym. Any links to persons living or dead is coincidental.

In the shadowy world of sex work, something which most of us know little about, it is heartening to findhumour and a glimmer of hope -- Jo Brand
Everyone should read this book -- Emily Edwards, author of The Herd

ISBN: 9781035024537

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

304 pages