Family Briefs Complete

The Slapping Waves Guesthouse in Bournemouth has been run by Pamela and Christine for long enough that the house has its own character and its own rules, and the new housekeeper Clara Young has been in residence for approximately ten minutes before she has worked out what the rules are and started adding a few of her own. Her daughter Lily is already on staff. Her daughter Jessica has just turned eighteen and is about to start.

Family Briefs is the complete series set in 1966, the third chapter of a saga that began in 1941 and has been accumulating characters, households, and interconnected histories across the decades. It stands entirely on its own, though the reader who has followed the story from the beginning will find layers here that reward their patience.

Four locations, four sets of women, and all of them connected. At 28-30 Maple Terrace, Mavis and Muriel run the Big House Finishing School with the specific authority of women who have been maintaining standards since before the war and are not inclined to lower them now. At number 12, Carol and her household manage South Watford Grammar School with their own methods. At Turner Creations, Susan and Elsie are preparing a lingerie show while managing a shoplifting problem that requires a specific kind of resolution. And at the guesthouse in Bournemouth, Christine and Pamela are hosting Granny Farmer’s ninetieth birthday party, which is turning out to require considerably more organisation than a ninetieth birthday party should.

Paula Mann writes this world with the ease of a writer who has been living in it for a long time, and the 1966 setting is fully inhabited in every detail. The spankings are explicit and fully described across every household and every occasion, the implements named and felt, the arousal tracked without apology throughout. The sex is written with the same completeness.

This book contains explicit F/F and M/F erotic spanking, bare bottom correction, hand spanking, wooden spoon, cane, strap and slipper use, institutional and domestic discipline dynamics, period 1966 setting, full nudity, and graphic sexual content between consenting adults.