 In 2007, the French literary magazine "Lire" included her in a list of what it called the fifty most important writers in the world – those it believed would have a significant influence on the literature of the 21st century.Her best-known work is the 2003 novel "The Bride Stripped Bare", an explicit exploration of female sexuality, which was originally written and published anonymously.Gemmell was identified publicly as the author of "The Bride Stripped Bare" before publication.