The kiss

By Hugo Vickers

Subjects: Biography, Great britain, social life and customs, Social life and customs, Manners and customs, Great britain, biography

Description: Joan Kappey lived with her sister in genteel poverty in Windsor. In 1960, Joan, a spinster, received a kiss from a man many years younger than herself. So began a passion that lasted almost to the end of her life. This is a true story of a vanishing class and powerful obsession.