Welcome to the twenty-first century, where women travel across the world in search of sex, love, and liberation but the reality is that hard cash equals hard men. "Sugar Mummies" is a funny, provocative, and revealing study of the pleasures and pitfalls of female sex tourism by the author of "Gladiator Games."

Tanika Gupta has written for theatre, radio, film and television. Her stage plays include "Voices in the Wind," "Skeleton," "On the Coach with Enoch," "Sanctuary" (also published by Oberon books) and "The Waiting Room," which won the John Whiting Award. She has also translated Brecht's "The Good Woman of Sezuan" and adapted Gita Mehta's "A River Sutra."