A Spy in the House of Love is a 1954 novel by Anaïs Nin, part of her Cities of the Interior sequence, published by Swallow Press and British Book Centre, Paris and New York. It was published in the UK by Peter Owen, London, 1971, and in paperback by Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1973 (Penguin book 3600).
The book is a journey into the mind of Sabina, who is assumed by many to be a fictionalized version of author Anaïs Nin herself. The book portrays an adulterous woman working with a therapist to try to come to terms with her dishonest ways. Anaïs Nin wrote the book at a time that she was having many affairs.
The genre is best described as erotic fiction. The story is a character study of a woman in torment.
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