Is it true what they say about the English? That they're strong in adversity, good at games—but hopeless in bed? Gerald McKnight, the noted journalist and social investigator, thinks not. And THE ENGLISH AT LOVE is his provocative and patriotic answer to all sceptics, whether French, Swedish, Italian—or English. In the twenty-four hours of the English lover's day, he ranges from the clients of Soho's bizarre back rooms to terrace-house adultery in the Midlands, from bored businessmen's office intrigues to some of the less well-known practices of Harley Street. He brings in evidence the opinions of people like Paul McCartney, Julie Christie and Gunther Sachs. And draws upon true case histories—such as Barrister X who liked to be 'kidnapped' from his Leicester home and brought to a London brothel—in this startling and candid view of the peculiarly English approach to love.