put it on the table. Moving with my hands behind me, I felt an iron ring in the stone. If I pulled, there would be a tunnel: I could put an iron bar across the hole. At the end of it would be a cell. There I had been all winter. […] Read on A. N. Wilson's Scandal and Josephine Hart's Damage are two other British novels depicting extramarital affairs of politicians which eventually lead to their downfall. The protagonist of Saul Bellow's Henderson the Rain King also travels to Africa to find enlightenment there. Notes 1971 British novels Adultery in novels English novels Hodder & Stoughton books