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Headline Home signs Gurney's 'essential' book for parents
Headline Home has signed How Not to Let Having Kids Ruin Your Sex Life, the second book from Karen Gurney, based on Gurney’s online course of the same name.
Senior commissioning editor Anna Steadman acquired world rights from Julia Silk at Greyhound Literary. The book will be published in April 2024.
The How Not to Let Having Kids Ruin Your Sex Life synopsis reads: "Sexual satisfaction is at its lowest for couples with young children. Sleepless nights, plus changes to our bodies, identities and priorities mean that the passion that brought you together can start to feel like a distant memory. But how can you retain a great sexual connection even when you have so little time? How can you make sure that you still feel like sexual partners, not just strung-out co-parents at the end of the day?
"In this essential book for parents everywhere, Dr Karen Gurney will show you how to navigate the changes to your intimate lives that starting a family inevitably brings – and ensure you have great sex, forever. You’ll discover how to communicate, how to invite intimacy, how to avoid key relationship pitfalls and how to survive the chaos of the pressures of family life and sleep deprivation at each key stage. Optimistic, wise and compassionate, this book shows you how to protect your sex life after kids, (re)connect with both your own sexual self and your partner’s, and how to have a mutually satisfying sexual relationship, long-term."
Gurney is a clinical psychologist and certified psychosexologist. She commented: "How Not to Let Having Kids Ruin Your Sex Life is a journey through the impact of parenting on your sex life, from the influences which were already taking their toll pre-kids, to the early years and beyond. Crucially, I wanted to deliver a book inclusive of all families, that can create change and have a knock-on effect on relationship satisfaction and stability. As a parent myself, I understand how time-poor parents can be, so this book is a guide to making small changes which can have enormous results.”
Steadman added: "I’m thrilled to be working with the brilliant Dr Karen Gurney again on this original, inclusive and genuinely helpful book that will reframe how parents everywhere think about not just sex but every aspect of their relationship."
