This is a uniquely atmospheric novel, with a high erotic charge, even though it is written in a flowery sort of way that will not provide what many fans of erotic literature are seeking. It uses a dreamy, almost trance-like style, strongly sensuous, but at the same time very implicit, giving hints of the emotions of the characters rather than bare descriptions of erotic acts. There are many hints of undressing, feeling, an chastising the female forms of receptive females (even daughters) by fathers and uncles, and of the effects of such activity on the arousal of the active males, but these rarely lead to satisfyingly orgasmic conclusions.

The story begins with Beatrice leaving her husband following a three-way erotic encounter with his step-mother, but the reasons for the separation are left unclear. She returns home as her father is about to leave for India, but before he goes he spanks her erotically and leaves her with a whip, as well as with ill-defined indications of an illicit relationship with her younger sister. His brother, her uncle, invites her to visit his house, and he takes up where her father left off, again with sensuous behaviour, albeit short of incest. His own wife and daughter, as well as her sister and a family friend, are complicit in her entrapment in voluptuous goings on, and soon she finds herself and her sister being undressed and tied up for chastisement with a leather strap before being dressed in scanty, transparent clothing and paraded in manacles before being enjoyed by strange men. An example:

'She receives. The squirting she receives – the long thin jets. Spatter-tingling of sperm. Their breath hush-rushes. Her arms lie limp. Long-leaping strands of wet. The oozy, last jet of come. The dribbling. The last tremors. Bellies warm. A weakness, falling. The strong loins of his urging are paper now. Strengthless he lies, then moves from her.’

Another young woman is introduced, and treated in similar fashion. Beatrice and her sister, their bottoms naked, are whipped with a riding crop as they ride horses in a circle. The majority of the erotic tableaux, described in the book at a luxurious pace, involve tying women to various kinds of frame, undressing women, particularly their lower quarters, before beating them with birches or straps. Most forms of sexual activity are included.

The book progresses at leisurely pace through a variety of scenarios:

‘My eyes were Aunt Maude’s eyes. They knew countries of the past I had not visited. My tongue peeped. Amanda would lie on her bed at home. The veils of her undoing would be raised. The strap would rise and fall. The metal bands would become gold bands. The roseate hue of her bottom would dwell in his mornings, illuminate his evenings.’

This is a classic of the erotic genre. It was reissued by Carroll & Graf as 'Maid's Night In' (1988). ( )

This is a uniquely atmospheric novel, with a high erotic charge, even though it is written in a flowery sort of way that will not provide what many fans of erotic literature are seeking. It uses a dreamy, almost trance-like style, strongly sensuous, but at the same time very implicit, giving hints of the emotions of the characters rather than bare descriptions of erotic acts. There are many hints of undressing, feeling, an chastising the female forms of receptive females (even daughters) by fathers and uncles, and of the effects of such activity on the arousal of the active males, but these rarely lead to satisfyingly orgasmic conclusions.

The story begins with Beatrice leaving her husband following a three-way erotic encounter with his step-mother, but the reasons for the separation are left unclear. She returns home as her father is about to leave for India, but before he goes he spanks her erotically and leaves her with a whip, as well as with ill-defined indications of an illicit relationship with her younger sister. His brother, her uncle, invites her to visit his house, and he takes up where her father left off, again with sensuous behaviour, albeit short of incest. His own wife and daughter, as well as her sister and a family friend, are complicit in her entrapment in voluptuous goings on, and soon she finds herself and her sister being undressed and tied up for chastisement with a leather strap before being dressed in scanty, transparent clothing and paraded in manacles before being enjoyed by strange men. An example:

'She receives. The squirting she receives – the long thin jets. Spatter-tingling of sperm. Their breath hush-rushes. Her arms lie limp. Long-leaping strands of wet. The oozy, last jet of come. The dribbling. The last tremors. Bellies warm. A weakness, falling. The strong loins of his urging are paper now. Strengthless he lies, then moves from her.’

Another young woman is introduced, and treated in similar fashion. Beatrice and her sister, their bottoms naked, are whipped with a riding crop as they ride horses in a circle. The majority of the erotic tableaux, described in the book at a luxurious pace, involve tying women to various kinds of frame, undressing women, particularly their lower quarters, before beating them with birches or straps. Most forms of sexual activity are included.

The book progresses at leisurely pace through a variety of scenarios:

‘My eyes were Aunt Maude’s eyes. They knew countries of the past I had not visited. My tongue peeped. Amanda would lie on her bed at home. The veils of her undoing would be raised. The strap would rise and fall. The metal bands would become gold bands. The roseate hue of her bottom would dwell in his mornings, illuminate his evenings.’

This is a classic of the erotic genre. It was reissued by Carroll & Graf as 'Maid's Night In' (1988). ( )