One Hundred Strokes of the Brush before Bed

An immediate success in Italy, where it has sold over 800'000 copies, One Hundred Dtrokes of the Brush before Bed is the fictionalized memoir of Melissa P, a Sicilian teenager who embarks on a quest for love only to find intense sexual experiences. A disappointed affair at the age of fourteen leads her to regard sex as a means of slef-discovery, and for the next two years she plunges into a succession of encounters with various partners, male and female, her age and much older, some met through schoolmates, other through newspaper adverts and internet chat rooms.