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Fool Me Twice: Confessions of a Perpetual Internet Dating Neophyte (Jules Hannaford)
Fool Me Twice: Confessions of a Perpetual Internet Dating Neophyte (Hasmark Services Publishing, 2018) is a confessional memoir from Jules Hannaford, an Australian expat who’s lived in Hong Kong for 20 years.
She’s a bit of a Renaissance woman: a single mother, teacher, host to the show Hong Kong Confidential (ranked by Tatler as one of the top five local podcasts)... and her own adaptation of Fool Me Twice as a true-crime pod-series went viral in 2019. The series received 200,000 downloads in 8 months, whilst scoring her - and her daughter, Zara - a nomination for the internet’s highest accolade; a Webby award.
“I am a strong, intelligent, well-educated woman,” Hannaford writes, “but there is something in my personality that allows me to be treated badly by men. Why am I missing the ability to trust my intuition and the courage to care for myself and keep safe?”
Trying to answer this question, Hannaford delves back into her childhood memories of Wattle Vale, Adelaide: from sexual assault at the hands of a school bully, to a near-beheading on another boy's motorbike. Contradictorily, Hannaford's childhood was also idyllic, marked by loving parents and and a nurturing all-girls boarding school.
Hannaford also gives safety tips for online daters by identifying the red flags she missed, and gleefully teases Season Two of Fool Me Twice.
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By Timothy PetkovicFool Me Twice: Confessions of a Perpetual Internet Dating Neophyte (Hasmark Services Publishing, 2018) is a confessional memoir from Jules Hannaford, an Australian expat who’s lived in Hong Kong for 20 years.
She’s a bit of a Renaissance woman: a single mother, teacher, host to the show Hong Kong Confidential (ranked by Tatler as one of the top five local podcasts)... and her own adaptation of Fool Me Twice as a true-crime pod-series went viral in 2019. The series received 200,000 downloads in 8 months, whilst scoring her - and her daughter, Zara - a nomination for the internet’s highest accolade; a Webby award.
“I am a strong, intelligent, well-educated woman,” Hannaford writes, “but there is something in my personality that allows me to be treated badly by men. Why am I missing the ability to trust my intuition and the courage to care for myself and keep safe?”
Trying to answer this question, Hannaford delves back into her childhood memories of Wattle Vale, Adelaide: from sexual assault at the hands of a school bully, to a near-beheading on another boy's motorbike. Contradictorily, Hannaford's childhood was also idyllic, marked by loving parents and and a nurturing all-girls boarding school.
Hannaford also gives safety tips for online daters by identifying the red flags she missed, and gleefully teases Season Two of Fool Me Twice.