There's a Bear in There (and he wants Swedish)

(and he wants Swedish)

This behind-the-scenes look at life in a brothel is a wonderfully funny tale told with a lively sense of the absurd and a rare and forgiving understanding of human frailty. 'I have several young busty blondes Derek' Ruth sang like the weathergirl. 'One is a very sexy Danish girl just back from a skiing trip five-foot-five long wavy blonde hair blue eyes twenty-five years old. A fantastic figure: thirty-six twenty-five thirty-five. Or I have a more demure very pretty young strawberry blonde Australian Derek. She's nineteen . . .' When her acting career stalls Merridy Eastman lands a challenging role: night receptionist at a Sydney brothel. A long way from the bright lights of a TV studio she is swept into the high drama of the sex industry. This former Play School presenter learns words for items and acts she never imagined she opens the door to first-timers old hands couples and the occasional celebrity. But the place she spends every moment she can is the kitchen table having a cup of tea and discussing investment portfolios and life's many great mysteries with Sapphire Shelby Antoinette and Bree - the women who make a living from having sex with strangers. And then in this most unlikely of places she finds herself falling in love . . .There's a Bear in There (and he wants Swedish) is a funny fascinating and near-as-dammit true account of a forbidden world told with a lively sense of the absurd and a rare and forgiving understanding of human frailty.