Virginia Fly is Drowning

Quiet, clever, sensible Virginia Fly, still a virgin at thirty-one, harbors erotic thoughts of an intensity and vividness unimagined by her suburban parents, her unassuming elderly suitor Hans or even her virile American pen-friend of twelve years, Charles Whitmore Oakhampton Jr - Charlie.

When Charlie announces that he is, at last, to visit England, it seems too much to hope that he should make Vi...