Emmanuelle

Available from Nook & Cranny Books when we last checked. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

This classic book of erotica is, alongside Story of O , the most famous French underground novel of the late twentieth century and a work of seductive literary merit. It begins with nineteen-year-old Emmanuelle’s flight from London to join her husband in Bangkok. On the airplane, she is seduced by the passenger seated next to her. By the time they land, she has indulged her irrepressible and insatiable sexual appetite, embarking on an odyssey of hedonistic sensual discovery that takes her from t