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Helen Croydon is an author, ghostwriter and writing coach. She has a rich media career behind her with 15 years as a journalist and five years as a PR agency founder.

As an author, her most recent book is the memoir, This Girl Ran: Tales From a Party Girl Turned Triathlete (Summersdale Publishing), which was long-listed for the William Hill Book of the Year in 2018. She is perhaps most well-known for the confessional dating memoir, Sugar Daddy Diaries: When a Fantasy Became an Obsession (Mainstream Publishing), which made the WHSmith best-seller list in 2011. Though she is always quick to point out that this was a memoir written in much younger, wilder days!

Her other title, Screw the Fairytale: A Modern Guide to Sex and Love, is a polemic ...more

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	This Girl Ran 3.87 avg rating — 532 ratings — published 2018 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sugar Daddy Diaries 3.58 avg rating — 123 ratings — published 2011 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Forbidden Love: A True Story of Adoption, Reunion and Longing by SOPHIA GREENWOOD, Helen Croydon (Goodreads Author) 4.09 avg rating — 54 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Screw The Fairytale: A Modern Girl's Guide to Sex and Love 3.72 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2014 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	This Girl Ran: Tales of a Party Girl Turned Triathlete really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	100 Lessons on Sex in 100 Words or Less (100 Lessons in 100 Words or Less) 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Helen Croydon and 2 other people liked Lyn Smith's review of Forbidden Love: A True Story of Adoption, Reunion and Longing: "I have my own background in Adoption, and have read countless books on the subject, but this book showed an aspect to the world of Adoption that I had not previously known of or considered. I am grateful to the authors for shedding light on what must" Read more of this review »
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