The gatehouse

About this book

Lyle Portman, a writer who is over forty, and Carla, his much younger common-law wife, buy an old gatehouse on Long Island only to find that a previous occupant still haunts it with her promiscuous presence, and that it is erogenously zoned for appetitive pursuits. This they learn after an elderly neighbor, Otis (a youthful victim of the earlier charmer), stages a soggy, disastrous party during and after which Carla becomes not only too easy to please but impossible to satisfy... (Kirkus synopsis)