Vin Fields’, aka Irving Greenfield’s, 1966 sleaze novel A Woman’s Touch, is part of the batch of paperbacks we picked up last March. It was a throw-in, so we had no expectations. But the book is okay. However, the cover blurb is wrong, which happens sometimes. It should say “mother”, not “husband”, or “Barbara”, not “Diana”.
Anyway, a once successful but now struggling playwright named Harry Osborn vacations on the island of Antigua and meets beautiful Barbara and Diana Williams, free-spirited mother and virgin daughter, posing as sisters. Harry gets involved with the mom Barbara first, then accidentally sees Diana naked and shifts his attentions. The thrust of the tale is whether Diana, though inexperienced, is really a freak waiting to flower, exactly like dear old ma. After encounters with a local lad, then Harry, it turns out that’s indeed what she is. Fields can write a little. We’ll give him another try down the line.
