TWENTY RECOMMENDED BOOKS

	As I have dedicated The Mistress to the Abbess Heloise, my first recommendation must be of The Letters of Heloise and Abelard, edited by Betty Radice.		Celia is one of the few novels by E.H. Young currently available - & they are all worth reading. Young lived for many years in a ménage à trois with the headmaster of Alleyn's School in the 1920s & 30s.
	Apuleius' tale of the beautiful girl Psyche and her immortal lover Cupid, of how she loses him and after many trials finds him again, is edited here by E.J. Kenney.		That 'high tale of love and death', The Romance of Tristan & Iseult, is the myth par excellence of all those who find themselves embroiled in passionate, unhappy and unsanctioned love.
	Helen Fisher's book, The Anatomy of Love, traces the history of monogamy, adultery and divorce.		Zelda West-Meads, a marriage guidance counsellor, takes a different approach to affairs from my own and may, for that reason, provide a useful antidote in To Love, Honour & Betray.
	And now for some novels. Rose Macaulay is featured in my book as a 'repentant mistress'. Her novel of post-war London, The World My Wilderness, is arguably her best.		Rosamond Lehmann's The Weather in the Streets relates the story of Olivia, who falls in love with the charismatic - and married - Rollo. It is a brilliant and moving account of a classic affair.
	Story of O is one of the most erotic texts ever written by a woman. Dominique Aury wrote it, using the pseudonym Pauline Réage, in a (successful) attempt to secure the continuing interest of her lover, Jean Paulhan.		And there's more...
	I've included this novel, partly just because I really like Karen Moline's writing, but also because she has clearly been influenced by Story of O. I found Belladonna totally entrancing.		From one femme fatale to another: Lucy Hughes-Hallett's marvellously detailed book on Cleopatra describes the way this woman's story has been depicted throughout the centuries.
	The Victorian novelist George Eliot, for all her respectability, betrayed many characteristics of the 'mistress-type'. This is one of the most recent biographies of her, by Jenny Uglow.		Simone de Beavoir's The Second Sex is a classic feminist text, and eminently readable. She has many interesting things to say about 'the woman who loves'.
	Anne Baring & Jules Cashford's The Myth of the Goddess is a comprehensive, awesomely well-researched account of goddess figures throughout history.		A book for the imaginative reader looking for something a little different, Noel Cobb's Archetypal Imagination is subtitled 'Glimpses of the Gods in Life & Art'.
	Thomas Moore's best-selling Care of the Soul is subtitled 'A Guide for Cultivating Depth & Sacredness in Everyday Life'. It is beautifully produced and written.		Archetypal psychologist James Hillman is a major inspiration behind the work and writing of both Thomas Moore and Noel Cobb. Some of his fundamental ideas are expressed in Revisioning Psychology.
	I've included Joan Smith's Different for Girls partly because the author seemed rather embarrassed to be cited in my book, about which she wrote a dismissive, though amusing, review.		This is probably keeping the best till last. Everyone should read Carl Jung's Memories, Dreams, Reflections at least once in their lives.