Samantha X Samantha X i(7711898 works by) (a.k.a. Amanda Goff)
Also writes as: Amanda Goff
Gender: Female
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1 y separately published work icon Misfit Amanda Goff , Summer Hill : Echo Publishing , 2025 29344738 2025 single work autobiography

'‘I wanted to go back to the real me, Amanda Goff. Yet there was just one problem. I had no idea who she was. I had no idea who I was. I hadn’t been Amanda for years, decades. Samantha wasn’t leaving just yet; she wasn’t going to make a quiet exit. She wasn’t that type of woman.’

'Amanda Goff was a successful journalist in London and Sydney before ditching her nine-to-five job at the age of 38 to become Samantha X, Australia’s most famous escort. A bipolar diagnosis changed everything: she retired from sex work, walked away from Samantha X, and went in search of Amanda. 

'Misfit is her third memoir – but the first written as ‘herself’. Raw, honest, provocative, wise and often laugh-out-loud funny, this is an unflinching record of her journey along the bumpy path to healing and self-acceptance. Beyond confronting her bipolar disorder and addiction issues, Amanda must also contend with prejudice and judgement, lingering trauma from her earlier life, and her own crushing self-doubt. As she struggles with the realities of so-called normality, the persistent voice of Samantha X is there to remind her of a former life that offered power, money, fame – and protection from the challenges that Amanda has courageously chosen to tackle head-on. '  (Publication summary)
1 Three in the Bed Samantha X , 2014 extract autobiography (Hooked : The Secrets of a High-Class Call Girl)
— Appears in: Sunday Life , 31 August 2014; (p. 15)
1 1 y separately published work icon Hooked : The Secrets of a High-Class Call Girl Samantha X , North Sydney : Random House Australia , 2014 7711925 2014 single work autobiography

'Samantha X is not your typical hooker. She's the wrong side of 35, has two kids and counts a wild night out dining at her local pizzeria.

'Career-wise, she had it all; writing for Australia's top selling woman's magazines; appearing as a media expert on television and travelling the world for the sake of a good story. Yet, after her marriage break down and two kids later, she turned her back on the media, and decided to dust off her stilettos and work at Sydney's most infamous brothel, where she soon became one of their best and most in-demand girls. Not only was she making great cash, but she was privy to the real life stories of her clients - irresistible to the journalist in her.

'How could she not keep a record of their salacious stories?

'Hooked is a fly-on-the-wall sexy, juicy, page-turner of what really goes on behind the walls of a brothel; from police raids to tearful married men confessing their secrets; lesbian threesomes and having to service the odd married couple trying to reignite their relationship.

'But while whoring can be lucrative and fun, it also comes with a hefty price, as Samantha soon finds out…The only problem is, can Samantha kick her addiction to what she believes to be the best job in the world…? ' (Publication summary)
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