Transgression

By Frank Parker

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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Frank Parker
• Release date: Dec 10, 2015
• ISBN: 9781310236624

Frank Parker

Frank Parker's writing has been likened to that of Laurie Lee, Ian McEwan and Charles Dickens. Not bad for a septuagenarian who came to writing late in life.Frank is a retired Engineer. He spent most of his working life in England where he was employed by UK based multi-national companies. He always wanted to write but has only found the freedom to do so since retiring to Ireland in October 2006.Formerly resident in Portlaoise, he now lives with Freda, his wife since 1963, in Stradbally, Co. Laois, Ireland.To date he has 4 e-books available on Smashwords, 2 novels and 2 collections of poems and short stories.He writes about people facing the challenges of history: The Norman conquest of Ireland, the dramatic changes in attitudes to sex and sexuality of the 1970s.He is currently researching and writing about the famine that struck Ireland between 1845 and 1852.