Transgression

Ranging across 70 years, Transgression explores changing attitudes to sex and sexuality: from when birth control advice was frowned upon and only available to married people to the acceptance of gay marriage.
When Douglas took advantage of a teenager's invitation to take her virginity, just a few weeks before being selected as a prospective Member of the British Parliament, he could not have imagined that forty years later his career as an MP would be brought down by the actions of a High Court Judge who discovered his guilty secret.
On discovering that the girl was pregnant he had enlisted the help of a friend's aunt to conceal the fact. That friend's biography of the girl, now the celebrated star of a popular soap opera, has already threatened to expose him by attracting the attention of his unacknowledged daughter.