The cover of Belle de Jour's book
The Belle de Jour controversy all feels a little 2004, now, doesn't it?
And yet Nick of Book Club Blog must be saluted for his dogged/tedious (delete as appropriate according to your disposition) pursuit of the identity of the blogger and self-professed call girl-turned writer.
He emailed to pass on the latest rumour, as evinced by an anonymous poster on his blog known only as verysunnymeadow, that Belle is a male author whose name has remained out of the frame so far:
I know who the author really is. He is male and his name hasn't been mentioned by anyone. He's an author who, if I mentioned his name, many people would go 'ah yes, sounds just like what he might do'. He has his head screwed on right, and he will do what we would all do - go all out for the Hollywood film deal. This will very probably mean not identifying himself for years.
For some reason I can't link directly to the post on Nick's blog where verysunnymeadow's comments are posted, but it's dated January 30.
Meanwhile Belle her/himself seems to have started blogging again sporadically.
