The Madonna Complex

by Norman Bogner

W. H. Allen, 1969 [First Edition], hardcover, dust-jacket

Very Good Condition, a little edge and shelf wear, no inscriptions, dust-jacket shows a little edge and shelf wear with minor rubbing and small chips to edges and creasing to spine (see photographs)

"Teddy Franklin, a wealthy financier in his late forties, has made the mistake of falling passionately in love with an elusive girl possessed of great beauty, unnerving flashes of wisdom and thoroughly unpredictable behaviour.  Barbara Hickman fits the classic definition of the Madonna: a woman of heaven, hell and earth whom anyone can handle but no one can touch.  in a desperate manoeuvre to bring them together, Teddy sends her to a psychoanalyst; when this fails, he hires a pair of thugs to invade the analyst's office and steal the tape-recordings of her sessions."