It was before breakfast, when Beth, who was twenty-two, was still in her nightdress, went to her dressing table, and picked up the wooden-backed hairbrush that her mum regularly used to spank her with. Beth was originally grounded when naughty, but had pleaded with her mum to replace grounding with a spanking. Her mum, Hannah, who was forty-eight and divorced, had agreed to replace grounding with spanking, but on the basi...