Pamela Stephenson-Connolly (2011 event)

Her book is certainly engaging but can it live up to the claims that it is the most enlightening book on sex ever published? Pamela Stephenson-Connolly's event threw up some surprises at the Book Festival in 2011. Originally trained as a clinical psychologist, Pamela Stephenson-Connolly turned her back on life as a TV comedian to become a sex therapist. In Sex Life, Mrs Billy Connolly provides an entertaining and occasionally shocking account of how human sexual appetites continue to evolve throughout life, aiming to dispel the myths that commonly surround this most fundamental of activities. The event is chaired by Ruth Wishart.

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