Share your favourite fictional sex scenes from books for your chance to win a copy of HAUSFRAU plus £100 worth of luxury chocolate

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Anna was a good wife, mostly...

Anna Benz, an American in her late-thirties, lives with her Swiss husband, Bruno - a banker - and their three young children, in a postcard-perfect suburb of Zürich.

Though she leads a comfortable life, she is falling apart inside. Adrift and increasingly unable to connect with Bruno, or even her own feelings, Anna tries to rouse herself with new experiences: German language classes, Jungian analysis, and a series of sexual affairs she enters with an ease that surprises her.

Having crossed a moral threshold, Anna will discover where a woman goes when there is no going back...

Anna Karenina goes Fifty Shades with a side of Madame Bovary; Hausfrau is the exceptional, haunting, and elegant debut novel from the prize-winning American poet, Jill Alexander Essbaum.

Share your favourite sex scenes from books for your chance to win a copy of Hausfrau plus a huge box of luxury chocolates worth £100!

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If it was banned you kniw it's raunchy ....Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller

I used to adore reading the Jackie Collins blockbusters, they were funny and raunchy, so any of the scenes in her books! :)

I just remember reading the sex scene in Lace when I was 14, the one with the goldfish

My books now tend to be horror!
And I've read HausFrau, can't remember the sex scenes much but thought she was a wrong 'un.

Women in Love by DH Lawrence

Thank you everyone for your contributions. Definitely a pretty saucy thread now! The winner of the copy of Hausfrau plus a luxury box of chocolates was 64zoolane. Congratulations!

The scenes in Lady Chatterley's Lover are classic

The library scene in Atonement was a work of art. It really was. Beautifully written, it's a heady combination of atmosphere, anticipation and expert choreography. However, what I really love about that scene is the complex symbolism- love interrupted by a little girl, a relationship destroyed by the war before reaching its climax, if you will. I love Atonement for the new layers of meaning hiding in there every time you re-read it.

My library copy also had a cracked spine at the relevant pages. That's a testament to quality, that is.