Scandalous book all about keeping love and sex apart (6)
I believe the answer is:
lolita
'scandalous book' is the definition.
'lolita' can be an answer for 'book' (I've seen this before). I'm unsure of the 'scandalous' bit.
'all about keeping love and sex apart' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'about' could be 'a' (abbreviation in Chambers) and 'a' is located in the answer.
'love' could be 'o' (love means zero in tennis) and 'o' is found within the answer.
'sex' could be 'it' (a common euphemism) and 'it' is found within the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for lolita that I've seen before include "novel title" , "Nabokov female" , "Literary nymphet" , "Nabokov's girl" , "Nabokov novel about a nymphet" .)