The Bride Stripped Bare is a 2003 novel by the Australian writer Nikki Gemmell, originally published anonymously.
[1][2] The title is borrowed from the painting The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (also known as The Large Glass) by Marcel Duchamp.
[3] In 2005, it was announced that Australian screenwriter Andrew Bovell, who penned the award-winning film drama, Lantana, was to adapt The Bride Stripped Bare for the screen.
In it, the author talks frankly about oral sex and love, and chronicles her relationship with a mysterious man she meets at a library group.
According to the publisher, it is a companion piece but not explicitly a sequel to The Bride Stripped Bare.