Rebecca Seehofer is a retired civil servant. In a career that spanned the 1960s up until the fall of the Berlin Wall, she was employed by the Her Majesty's Government as a courtesan to grease the wheels of commerce and to gain political advantage. As the old adage goes, nothing sales like sex.
Trainee schoolteacher and former journalist, Sybil Torricelli, is Becca's granddaughter and her official biographer.
Although charged with recording Rebecca's memoirs, it is only inevitable that Sybil should reflect upon her own life and sexuality. After all, she does carry the Seehofer gene.
In this, the second volume of reminiscences, Sybil asks Becca if she ever partook in erotic photo shoots. The reasons for Sybil's interest stems from her cousin Isobel's unlikely venture into the world of part-time glamour modelling.
The ensuing generational recollections from both women, past and present, reveal Rebecca's erotic photo shoots, a honey trap set for a German diplomat, and Sybil's own Sapphic discoveries during group sex with doctors, instigated at the insistence of Isobel, an occasion that opened the mind of Isobel, the straight-A engineering student, to a world of self-denied possibilities .