The Girls Left Behind – The Complete Story

It is 1941 and the men of Maple Terrace have gone to war. Mavis Turner at number 28 is keeping her household together while working as housekeeper at the Big House for the Remington family. Muriel Porter at number 30 is secretary at the uniform factory. Their daughters are at school and at work and running in and out of each other’s houses the way they have always done, and the wooden spoon that Mavis has in her hand when she is cooking the potatoes has more than one use, as Benny Turner discovers when he makes the mistake of arguing with her while she is using it.

The Girls Left Behind is the complete series, all twenty-two books in one volume, and it is the origin of the world that continues through Knicker Bottom Story in 1958 and Family Briefs in 1966. It stands entirely on its own and rewards every page of its considerable length.

Three families anchor the story. The Turners, the Porters, and the Remingtons at the Big House, with their daughters at various stages of school and work and the specific freedom that wartime produces in young women whose fathers and brothers are absent and whose mothers are managing everything with the competence and the warmth of women who have always managed everything and have simply had the official acknowledgement removed. The uniform factory is where several of them work, where Thomas Scott’s supervision has its own methods, and where the connections between the three households multiply.

Paula Mann builds this world with the patience and the physical detail of a writer who has spent a long time in it. The 1941 setting is not backdrop but atmosphere, present in every ration book and every blackout curtain and every evening when the bombs can be heard but not felt in Watford. The discipline runs through every household and every relationship with the naturalness of something that has always been there, administered with wooden spoons and hands and eventually implements chosen for the occasion, always between women who know each other well and care about each other deeply.

The spankings are explicit and fully described across all twenty-two books, the arousal tracked throughout, the sex 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, domestic and workplace discipline dynamics, wartime 1941 period setting, intergenerational family discipline, full nudity, and graphic sexual content between consenting adults.