Penguin Modern Classics: A Spy In The House Of Love

Sabrina is a firebird blazing through 1950s New York: she is a woman daring to enjoy the sexual licence that men have always known. Wearing extravagant outfits and playing dangerous games of desire, she deliberately avoids commitment, gripped by the pursuit of pleasure for its own sake.

In ‘A Spy In The House Of Love’, Anais Nin expressed her individual vision of feminine sexuality with a ferocious dramatic force. Through Sabrina’s affairs with four men, she lays bare all the duplicity and fragmentation of self involved in the search for love.