The filming of the TV series, starring Billie Piper, is generating huge excitement in the press Top 10 bestseller on hardback and paperback publication Over 100,000 paperbacks already sold Rights in the book have sold all over the world, and it is being made into a six-part series by Channel 4 Huge media interest - ever since acquisition there have been articles everywhere asking 'Who is Belle de Jour?' 'She lists like Hornby. She talks dirty like Amis. She has the misanthropy of Larkin and examines the finer points of sexual technique as if she is adjusting the torque on a beloved but temperamental old E-type' Independent 'Bridget Jones stops moaning and goes on the game' Sunday Telegraph

Belle de Jour is the nom de plume of a London call girl. She is in her mid-twenties, and lives and works in London. Despite the best endeavours of the press, she remains anonymous.