This book is a superb example of the spanking genre (M/F division), even if it is a collection of ten different stories. Collections of short stories tend to disappoint by being disjointed and by being variable in quality and appeal, story-to-story, but this one somehow avoids these drawbacks. Perhaps this is because the characters are largely the same, and perhaps it is because the leading story occupies nearly half of the book. That particular story contains many of the ingredients that will be found highly stimulating by devotees of the genre. It includes a suitably stern disciplinarian headmaster in the act of keeping his callipygous, hot-blooded female secretary in order and also a lengthy episode in which three senior boys are encouraged by the said secretary, after her correction, to demonstrate their amatory vigour. Alison North writes herself into some of the stories, and everywhere in this volume we become convinced that she knows with painful clarity the chastisements of which she writes. Beautifully written, nicely paced, almost faultless. ( )