Wife Swapping For Beginners: A Novel about Sex and Swinging in 1970s Baltimore

Nick and Connie are a middle class couple living in suburban Baltimore in the 1970s who, after ten years of marriage, decide that exploring the currently popular swinging lifestyle might be a good idea. Their odyssey from boring fidelity to nervous promiscuity includes triumphs and disasters and everything in between as they seek the holy grail of sexual satisfaction with a disparate array of friends and strangers. It is a story about relationships and desires, sex and friendship, marriage and impossible dreams that ranges from the comic to the tragic. With his own memories of that permissive decade as a background, David Kaye's novel follows one couple's search for answers to questions that neither of them entirely understands with, hopefully, a bit of fun along the way.