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LazyDaisy Jan 2020 4:19pm, 11 Jan 2020 28,868 posts	0 LazyDaisy Just had a browse in one of the local independent bookshops and have bought Rebecca, which I am ashamed to say I've never read, and 'To serve them all my days' by RF Delderfield. He lived in Sidmouth for many years so I feel I ought to support a local boy
LindsD Jan 2020 6:16pm, 11 Jan 2020 32,660 posts	0 LindsD I have read both, and loved them both, but not sure I'd enjoy the RFD now. It was the first book I read with sex in it.
Diogenes Jan 2020 6:19pm, 11 Jan 2020 44,207 posts	0 Diogenes I love Delderfield.
Columba Jan 2020 6:53pm, 11 Jan 2020 19,047 posts	0 Columba "The first book I read with sex in it..." That sounds almost good enough for a thread on its own.
Sharkie Jan 2020 6:56pm, 11 Jan 2020 15,652 posts	0 Sharkie Ooh yes Columba - what fun! I think the (frankly appalling) Ian Fleming for me! Though I'm not sure. Of course lots of classics have sex in ...but it's sort of in disguise!
Columba Jan 2020 7:01pm, 11 Jan 2020 19,048 posts	0 Columba Yes, I'm not sure how explicit it would have to be, to count as sex. I read Lady Chatterley's Lover when it first came out in paperback after the trial (I was 17) and that certainly is explicit, but I'd read Ian Fleming before then.
Sharkie Jan 2020 7:05pm, 11 Jan 2020 15,653 posts	0 Sharkie Got a bit of the old tingle factor from Rumer Godden's The Greengage Summer when I was 12 or so....
LindsD Jan 2020 7:07pm, 11 Jan 2020 32,663 posts	0 LindsD To serve them.... says (iirc) 'he entered her'.
LazyDaisy Jan 2020 7:10pm, 11 Jan 2020 28,873 posts	0 LazyDaisy Goodness. Bit racy for Sidmouth
LindsD Jan 2020 7:11pm, 11 Jan 2020 32,665 posts	0 LindsD Not sure why I can remember that from (approx) 40 years ago, but can't remember what I had for breakfast...

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