Nothing Natural

Nothing Natural centres with illuminating precision on a sado-masochistic relationship. Rachel is in her thirties, a single parent admired by her friends for her self-sufficiency . But when she meets the compelling, sinister Joshua she discovers another side to herself . In a sense which horrifies her, she has found herself . An outstandingly well-written novel' New Statesman An addictive story of a dangerous love affair with a shocking denoument, this is a complex examination of the relations between the sexes at their most combatative and collusive. It is a clever book with much to tell us about the nature of desire and what should or should not be permissable.

First novel from Diski who went on to be a well known writer, which meant she never wrote anything as good as this again.

Tale of woman who gets in relationship with man who dominates her.

"Rachel saw a vison of herself bent over the kitchen tale, bare arsed, beingspanked by a fully clothed man....What am I doing, she thought. Why am I letting it happen?. But the part of her that wasn't watching was arching her back, lifting her buttocks to receive each smack as it came."

Arousing in parts

A bondage novel that speaks a lot about women and sex. Pain and pleasure abound in this novel. It's the only popular novel by Diski, but I suggest you seek out her other novels.