Young Adam

Here is the frank, revelatory novel that served as the basis of the recent celebrated art film. The two crew members of a barge owned by the wife of one of the men pull an almost nude female body from the river. Murder is suspected. The single crew member becomes attracted to his friend's wife. The feeling is mutual. The lovers are caught in the act. Meanwhile, the wrong man is arrested for the alleged murder and the guilty party is all but overcome with remorse not for the death of the young woman but that an innocent man will likely go to the gallows for a crime he didn't commit. Then the plot thickens and the lovemaking gets even hotter!