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Mattress Actress

By: Annika Cleeve
Narrated by: Lisa Moule
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Mattress Actress is the story of Annika Cleeve’s 18 years as a sex worker. Her troubled childhood led to working in a brothel by the age of 15. From there Annika worked her way up to the high-end parlours, agencies, and private work in various parts of Australia and internationally. In this book Annika reveals the truth of a sex worker’s life: the clients, the girls, the parlour bosses, the rip-off merchants, the drug deaths, the white slavery, the discrimination, the corrupt police and politicians, the exotic travel, and the money, finally finding an exit strategy that didn't require a man on a white steed, but rather a university education.

Mattress Actress is a revealing and gutsy look at someone practising the world’s oldest profession in the late 20th century. From wide-eyed innocent to experienced and successful professional, Annika’s story is both shocking and highly entertaining.

About the author: Annika Cleeve proudly has an alphabet of qualifications behind her name, most of which were earned during her 18 years as a sex worker. Annika made the most of the life dished up to her, plying her trade all over the world to royalty & rock stars. She will make you laugh and cry all in the same page.

©2012 Annika Cleeve (P)2014 Audible Studios True Crime
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loved it. indearing, whitty, comically brilliant yet raw, edgy and confronting all in one book. loved it.
terrible editing tough!

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Beautiful story, very thoughtfuly written account of a life well lived. The choices she made to better herself were so interesting to here
I loved every second of this book

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