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  • Published: 24 October 2012
  • ISBN: 9780241964651
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 240

Gordon




The erotic novel they tried to ban

An extraordinary novel of psycho-sexual entanglement - banned for indecency in England in 1966.

Post-war London. Louisa, a smartly dressed young woman in the midst of a divorce, meets a charismatic man in a pub, and within an hour has been sexually conquered by him on a garden bench. Thus begins her baffling but magnetic love affair with Richard Gordon.

Gordon, a psychiatrist, keeps Louisa in his thrall with his almost omniscient ability to see through her, and she is equally gripped by the unexpected pleasure of complete submission. Subjecting herself to repeated humiliations at his hands, but quite unable and unwilling to free herself from his control, Louisa and Gordon sink further and further into the depths - both psychologically and sexually.

Templeton's prose exquisitely captures one of the most unusual and disturbing love stories ever written.

  • Published: 24 October 2012
  • ISBN: 9780241964651
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 240

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Praise for Gordon

A haunting, powerfully fascinating work of bold, desolate honesty. Terrible, believeable, inexorable

New Statesman

Remarkable and unusual, memorable and unsettling

Daily Telegraph

Reading Gordon is a chillin experience. The power of the novel lies in its determination to present a relationship that still inhabits the realm of the taboo

Sunday Herald

Fascinating, spellbinding

Candia McWilliam, Evening Standard

A compelling story which offers no easy conclusions and deserves a significant place in the history of women's writing

Observer