Sixty-year-old respectable housewife paula plots revenge on her philandering husband, jack. can arlene, his long standing old fashioned feminist mistress, who has now become a carer with benefits, rescue him from paula's grip? one brazilian later paula has bedded hot rod, her young internet date, and subjected her husband to ...what? could it be elder abuse as the social worker thinks or are the bound hands a product of jack's confused mind? paula's revenge is fuelled by her unexpected sexual awakening and new found power over her husband. will a surrogate baby and gay son soften paula or does something darker lie beneath her frosty persona? demented love is a black comedy presenting older people in an original way. it is s and m for the m&s brigade. a laugh out loud book for the broad minded reader