Devotees of Ms Celbridge will be well aware that her style in the erotic spanking literature is both strongly orientated as F/F, with M/F and F/M playing quite minor roles, and also firmly positioned at the far end of the erotic pain spectrum. As with Celbridge’s other novels the plot is both complex and difficult to comprehend, but for those turned on by seemingly endless mostly consensual F/F canings that are by no means constrained to the ‘lower back’ region, such fine points of the literary craft are presumably of little significance. The setting is in and around some far-eastern wartime camp that vaguely involves Japanese soldiers and a large number of nurses, both British and Japanese, whose aim, much greater than military victory, is to have their bodies thrashed to (and beyond) frequent orgasms. There is also a parallel plot, that I had difficulty understanding, involving a tribe of extreme, flagellation-obsessed ‘feminists’. Scatology and anal penetration figure strongly, and the book is not for the squeamish. My rating is based on its appeal to its specialist audience. ( )