An entertaining and elegant look at singledom in London that challenged censor’s ideas on sex and conception.

An entertaining and elegant look at singledom in London that challenged censor’s ideas on sex and conception.
Why would a censor in 1964 worry about a book published more than a century earlier? Perhaps a Gothic horror story featuring fornicating nuns and priests was just too much. Or maybe this historical curiosity was packed in a racy, titillating cover?
An instant bestseller in Britain, ‘Catch-22’ was banned in Ireland from 1962 to 1974. There’s lots of sex in this book but the first sentence was the reason it was banned.