Adultery

I have before me three novels about adultery, taken from my bookshelves: They are Iris Murdoch's A Severed Head, published in 1961; John Braine's Life at the Top, published in 1962; and Guy Bellamy's The Secret Lemonade Drinker, published in 1977. One woman author and two men. Two of these novels were published just before The Permissive Society came into being; one when it had firmly taken