Australian authoress bases her novel on life aboard a cruise ship. Says it is most definitely NOT the glamorous life it's cracked up to be ... as - among other things - male workers will very often marry American women, simply in order to obtain a visa.

Read more here:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/ar...but-novel.html

Sex, lies and deceit.

So ... ... what's new? As with the characters portrayed in the novel ... the real life participants are "cruising for a bruising" one way or another!