Married Set

by Jerome Martin

An Adult novel with a WARD cover.

Mass Market Paperback

Published January 1, 1967

About the author

Jerome Martin has written children's books about science, history, Shakespeare and food. Before joining Usborne in 2014, he spent a decade studying literature at Harvard, Cambridge and the University of Iowa, and several years behaving responsibly in a copywriting office. Now, he spends his working hours researching delightful and amazing facts, his evening hours parenting two children, and the minutes in-between writing poetry.

Reviews

[Erin · Rating 1 out of 5]

This was some pretty gross smut. The book is written by a man, but told from the point of view of a 22 year old married girl. The girl is married to a much older man who pretends to be uninterested in sex. She starts going to a sex club which turns out to be a whorehouse. 🙄 She ends up messing around with women and being blackmailed into becoming a whore. She then begins molesting her stepdaughter, sells her to be raped and then her husband sells her to the whorehouse (where it turns out that he was one of their best customers)as a body for the sickest S&M freaks, where she ends up planning her revenge to kill everyone. Oh yeah, the folks who run the place are porn actors. I guess this was a cautionary tale? Don't be a slut? This was some truly weird 60s dark perversity. Not what I was expecting, for sure. If this is what turned people on at the time, yuck. Totally gross. Gross that someone wrote it, gross that people were okay with it, particularly the rape and child abuse. I will be trashing this and not ever taking recommendations from people on Facebook again. Someone described this as a funny version of the book Cape May, but no.