Alice Hartley's Happiness

Social mores come under acute scrutiny in this reissue of a long-unavailable novel of betrayal, revenge and liberation. Alice Hartley can no longer arouse the interest of her pompous husband. Just as she is compelled to face this chilling truth, she meets Michael, a young student with an excessive libido. In Michael, Alice discovers an endless supply of all she has sought: revenge, sex and a large house suitable for conversion. Soon the house is thigh-deep with women joyfully casting off the shacles of their oppression. Sadly, some narrow-minded neigbours and numerous forces of the law seem completely impervious to all those healing vibrations...