One of the many bestsellers from the 1930s which was banned. When this novel was on sale after it was banned, the unfortunate bookseller was prosecuted.
S6 E8 Dreadfully Common: Maugham ‘Cakes and Ale’ (1930)
S4 E3 Hex & Sex: Smith ‘The Passionate Witch’ (1942)
Only a truly paranoid censor would ban a book this innocuous. But even barely there smut can give convent-school girls ideas…
