When Catherine Millet first strutted salaciously onto the world's literary stage, it was as a free-thinking libertarian whose sex life was as indiscriminate as her book proved incendiary.
Seven years later the woman who became known as the icon of highbrow erotica is back, but this time as a wife ravaged only by envy and suspicion.
With the author's characteristic frankness, Day of Suffering, the first book by Millet since her explosive literary debut The Sexual Life of Catherine M, charts her descent into the psychological "hell" of keeping check on her errant husband.
It was written in part, she said, as a reality check for her devoted readers who had come to see her way of life as the ultimate in empowered sexual hedonism and regard her as immune from the emotional troubles that beset others.
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