The Swinging Sixties, the Beatles, sexual liberation and promiscuity – Riccarsham Ladies’ Union are missing out: they desire to be part of the action. Their committee debates the matter – there will be an orgy, maybe a series of orgies, and there will be brandings, maybe a series of brandings. Those brandings will become a mark of ownership, quality and approval. Enter a confidence trickster who seeks out wealthy widows. Bert Hedges has had many aliases and assumed professions in his time, but here he is trying a new ploy: he will be a parson. He finds that the power of the dog collar is phenomenal; it provides him with a passport to the confidences, and bedrooms, of numerous women. This tale is tongue–in–cheek, humorous, provocative, maybe salacious, but there is no bad language and no descriptions of organs or bodily functions. It is all in the best possible taste – well, almost.

ISBN 978 07223 4116–2

Paperback – 464 pages