Charlotte Glendinning brings us a cautionary tale for men and women both of a financially comfortable and happily married couple with grown-up children whose world begins to change around them.
This when the wife of the partnership finds herself responding to the adventures of a beguiling female work-colleague and the cuckolding and female-led relationship she has with her own husband.
A relationship, the mesmerised wife and mother is told, she can have with her husband if she is bold enough to make the changes needed in her marriage
Changes that will include domination of both the emotional and the sexual kind, humiliation, and chastity.