Helen Croydon documents a Sugar Daddy Diary

Spontaneity. Does any one dabble with that word any more?

Helen Croydon does. Let me introduce you to the Sugar Daddy Diaries. A hilarious tale of a person’s curious nature that organically spirals into something much more. Sound familiar? It seems these days one tweet, one message, one membership sign-up can rapidly form opportunities right in front of you. However, how many of these would you actually seize? If someone seemingly harmless said you had ten minutes to get ready, get a tube and meet them at a restaurant (or for those more experienced: the airport) – would you go? Thought so.

That is the  potentially exciting thing about being online, and Helen seizes pretty much every invitation that pops into her Sugardaddie.com inbox. Reading the tales of someone with minimal fear is refreshing, scary and inspiring. She documents her  journey of how the internet really can be tailored suit your needs, provide an outlet for your deepened curiosities, and create exciting additions to your offline life.

Sugar Daddy Diaries is a confessional story of a woman who, quite rightly, finds it hard to say no. They are times in which Helen is exhausted, whilst juggling her demanding career and even more demanding dating hobby, yet still manages to push herself out of the front door when a spontaneous suggestion is made. As each chapter builds, so does the excitement. Can she really continue on a wild goose chase of older men dating without crumbling under the pressure, or indeed under her own personal walls? As a reader, we ask whether such things can really make her happy in the long run, whilst she also tries to tackles these questions herself.

The book is refreshingly open, truthful and deals with the trials and tribulations of social stigma, online dating, and what, as a woman, ‘we should want’. Helen loves her Happily Married best friend, but she couldn’t want less of that lifestyle. Instead, she continues to justify herself (and in some cases fib) to her friends and family, and often also to herself – as her dates and arrangements become increasingly intertwining, lavish and surreal. We flit to and fro along beside her, as she combats her internal dilemmas between modern day arrangements and traditional ideas of monogamy; comparing and contrasting what both these things logically and logistically can offer.

It is a witty and open tale of someone who wants to have fun, but of course, even when having fun, there are always harsh realities and lessons to learn along the way…

I highly recommend a read – and you can order from various ways from Helen’s website here:

http://www.helencroydon.com/the_book/